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German and Yiddish passport - Lithuania under German occupation, 1916

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Pass [passport]. A Jewish passport issued by the Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost [German administration in Ober-Ost] at the end of the First World War, with ink stamps "Verwaltungsgebiet Litauen" - the administration in Lithuania, and handwritten details. In the passport, a photograph of a 22-year-old Jewish boy named Meir Roznikov, born in Radin in 1892, from the region of Grodno administrators during the war, his fingerprint, as well as the ink stamps of the administrator in Lithuania. The details were filled out on September 7, 1916. (and filled out again in 1919).

The passport was issued by the German government in the territories occupied by Germany temporarily in the First World War [including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, and territories from Poland and Korland]. The sections in which Yiddish and German. Among the articles of the regulations that appear, punishments ranging from five to ten years for a person who is found without a passport, a forged passport, etc. As well as penalties for a person who will not announce the loss of his passport within 24 hours.

[8] pages. 15 cm. Stains. Passport pages are detached. moderate condition.

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14. German and Yiddish passport - Lithuania under German occupation, 1916