Swiss Passport Booklet 1914, Canton Zurich in excellent condition and with visa for Turkey. This passport type is rare to spot.
Swiss Passport Booklet 1914 Canton Zurich
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Passport of Magda Lutz – Wife of Righteous Swiss Diplomat Carl Lutz
CARL LUTZ will be forever remembered as the Swiss Diplomat who saved sixty-thousand Jewish life´s by issuing so-called SCHUTZBRIEFE (Protection Letters) in Budapest in 1944. Lutz divorced his first wife, Gertrud in the late 1940s, and in 1949 married Maria…
Swiss Border Document 1938 for the wife of Kemal Ataturk private secretary
This document (Grenzbescheinigung) issued by the Swiss legation in Istanbul on 15 September 1938 is granting “Madame Necmiye SOYAK” – the wife of Hasan Riza SOYAK – a preferred and expedited border crossing without hindrance. Stamp of the Swiss…
SWITZERLAND – Passport Mother & Child 1927
Beautiful document showing Swiss emigration to USA, Mother and child pictures several times. Rare!
Swiss Passport issued in East Berlin, East Germany
The Swiss / East Germany diplomatic relation began in Dec 1972 when Switzerland recognized East Germany (GDR) as independent state. The fist mission was just a trade mission and was opened in Nov 1972. Hansjakob Kaufmann was the first and…
Rare Swiss Passport 1942 Issued In Berlin
This document is a rare testimony of Swiss citizens in Berlin / Germany during WWII. Learn more about the document itself, the Swiss Embassy in Berlin at those days and about the work of the Swiss repatriation delegation after the…
Third Reich Service Passport – Musicologist Prof. Schünemann
Schünemann (1884 – 1945) , the son of a rector, received his doctorate after studying music in 1907 with his thesis on the history of conducting. After his habilitation in 1919 he became a professor in 1920, deputy director and…
Helvetic Republic Passport 1798
In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance (and ruling over subject territories such as Vaud).…
British Passport Signed By Ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold
A significant British Diplomat Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet, GCB, GCMG, KCVO, PC (5 February 1869 – 24 May 1941) was a British diplomat. A well-traveled diplomat, learning Arabic, Japanese and German, he is best remembered for his…
Swiss Protection Letter 1945, Germany
When it comes to such Protection Letters I do have quite experience with such documents life saving for Jews during the Holocaust issued by several countries. But this type is not often to spot. The cardboard printed in German and…