The passports of Carl Lutz – A Swiss Hero
I have already written several articles about Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul who saved many Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. But today,…
Concentration Camp Inmate becomes Nuremberg Trial-Translator
I acquired an outstanding document set most important concerning the Holocaust and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. There is a scarce chance to get such…
Native American UK Alien Registration Card
The Native Americans, a brief introduction The great expansion into the American West, which began in the 1840s, transformed America. This expansion across the Great…
East German Passport 1983 with unusual visas
My friend Mat pointed me to a captivating GDR passport from 1983 with visas to unusual destinations. The bearer was Prof. Dr. med. Dieter W….
Diplomatic Passport WWII B-26 Bomber-Pilot
This is the diplomatic passport of U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Robert Alan Zaiser of Burlington, a 1938 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy…
The Passport of German Actor + Director W. Lukschy
Wolfgang Jakob Franz Ludwig Lukschy born on October 19, 1905, in Charlottenburg and passing away on July 10, 1983, in Berlin, was a prominent German…
Diplomatic Passport of Eduard Schewardnadze
My website is online for over a decade, and I got many requests from readers offering documents. The email I got these days was indeed…
NS Passport – Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – Kaschau
After World War I and during the gradual break-up of Austria-Hungary, the city at first became a part of the transient “Eastern Slovak Republic,” declared…
Variety Artiste Daisy Weston travels to Finland and Russia in 1911
British passports were the only travel documents that didn’t physically describe their bearer. But Daisy’s passport already had a passport photo at a time when…
Iraq Diplomatic Passport Al-Bakr Presidency
Following the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party’s ouster from government in 1963, Al-Bakr and the party pursued underground activities and became vocal government critics. During this…
Frederic Leighton and his Travels in 19th Century
Who was Frederic Leighton? Frederic Leighton Travel Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. The recipient of…
