Posted 8 years ago
huddyhuddy
(112 items)
Refugee issued passports and travel documents from WWII are among the items that are of interest to me and therefore the main focus of my collecting and preserving. The one here is extra nice and rare: Jewess who escaped from Poland to the Soviet Union around 1940-41 was released from internment following the Sikorski-Mayski agreement of 1941 that was signed in London, and allowed during 1942 to leave the USSR to Persia. There most refugees were issued Polish passports at the consulate in Tehran, which she used to immigrate to British Palestine. What is extra unique is that it was used up to 1945 (after reaching the Mandate in 1943!) to travel to French Levant with the Free French consular visas as well applied inside.
