German Diplomat Franz Kapf Passport – Das Amt und die Vergangenheit Meet Franz Krapf from Munich, Germany. His passport was issued in Sep 1936 at the German consulate in Yokohama, Japan and according the entries in the document he was…
Update 31.10.2017 Dear Tom, Thank you for your continued support and cooperation for our Sugihara UNESCO Memory of the World project. I regret to inform you that our nomination documents of ”The Sugihara List” on the UNESCO Memory of the…
Netherlands Minister Japan Chinese Passport A random search on a auction website was leading me to this Chinese passport from 1929. A great piece of travel document. “Chinese ambassador to Japan Mr Wang Wei, hereby issue this passport to Dutch…
Passport Of A Jewish Widow Of A German Consul The occupation in the passport says “Konsulswitwe” (widow of a consul). I couldn’t find any data during my research who this consul was. But what is even more interesting is that…
Rare United States Passport 1954 – Territory Of Hawaii US passport issued in Honolulu, Hawaii 1954 when it only was TERRITORY of the USA and not a STATE. Hawaii was incorporated 5 years later in 1959. Condition is almost like…
Recently I posted an article about “Diplomats who saved Jews”. Today I can report and display a document issued by one of the *”Righteous Among The Nations”. (*an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked…
A few weeks ago I published an article about a passport I gave once to a fellow collector. With pleasure I can tell you today I got it back. My good fellow collector understood my desire on this item. I…
As you might know my private collection contains German documents only. My oldest passport is from 1646 from a German duchess and another one from 1796 for a French Nobleman issued in South of Germany (escaping the French Revolution). Well,…