Two passports issued to two Jewish women in Ponevezeh during the First World War, when Lithuania was under German control. The Germans issued special passports in German and Yiddish, with Hebrew letters, for the Jews of Lithuania. They were destroyed right after Germany withdrew in 1919.
Each passport consists of 4 leaves including the jacket. Printed on both their sides, in the two languages. Thick, light-blue, colored paper. 148×90 mm.
Each פאס features personal information, birthplace, place of residence, age, height etc. Here are two elderly women from Ponevezh, both 70-71 years of age [one from the Ginsburg Family]. Both bear a picture of the passport holder. The bylaws of the German government also appear in Yiddish. The German eagle. ‘PAS’ in Hebrew and German letters. This was apparently the only passport ever printed in Yiddish.
Fine condition.