Jewish passports .. family ??

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all help please are they family see names .. they are not mine but , info would help. Attachment 1476434Attachment 1476435Attachment 1476437Attachment 1476438Attachment 1476440Attachment 1476441Attachment 1476442Attachment 1476443Attachment 1476444Attachment 1476445

[Willmore]

The J in the Reisepass means the holders were Jewish, but I can’t help with authenticity because I don’t collect these.

Ideally you need take some clear, close up and focused photos of each page you need help with,

Here are a couple of threads about these,

"J" Reisepass & Kennkarte

Reisepass maked "J" -

Reisepass
The mans name looks like Ernst Robert Drechsler.
Date of birth - 18.2.1906

The womens name could be Lola or lona Drechsler.
Date of birth - 24.7.1908 in Wien.

The Passport
The women’s name looks like Iska Fraida Baran (Baron) - Could be a Jewish surname. She was Polish and born in 1859.

[Willmore]

I did a search on ancestry and there is a World War Two ‘alien’ internees record for Ernst Robert Drechsler. I don’t have an ancestry account unfortunately so I can’t look at the records.

Alien internee means - During the First and Second World Wars both sides set up internment camps to hold enemy aliens – civilians who were believed to be a potential threat and have sympathy with the enemy's war objectives. Internees were treated differently to prisoners of war and were given more privileges.

So it would make sense that as someone from Austria he would have been treated in this way, even if he was Jewish.


I also found - Drechsler, Ernst Robert; Austria; Hairdresser; 11 Kendrick Road, Reading, Berkshire. 8 November, 1947.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/.../6005/data.pdf

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Andy, I can’t tell if it says Israel on the guys passport 1-1-39 Israel was to be in the name on the passport and Sara was to be on the females , now naturally If it was issued before 1-1-39 it wouldn’t of been on there , and from what I see this shows his was issued after 1-1.

[firefox]

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see photo .

[firefox]

think it is mar 14 1939 it say on his entry visa to uk is 5 mai 1939 12th may 1939 stamp dover ,uk no other entrees

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other item with them was all together Attachment 1476483Attachment 1476484Attachment 1476485Attachment 1476486Attachment 1476487

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the person that as them , i;am sure that she would let them go ,would they sell them in a auction house are they aloud to sell things like this ??

[CBH]

Holocaust museums might be interested in such a collection, I’d consider contacting some of them first. But most military auction houses will sell such items, the stars are highly collectable and widely faked.

[Willmore]

Ernst Robert Drechsler

Geruf (Job) - landarbeiter? (Farm worker)?
Geburtsort (Place of birth) - Wien?
Geburtstag (Birthday) - 18.2.1906
Wohnort (Place of residence) - Wien
Gestalt (Shape) - Mittel (Medium)
Gesicht (face) - ?
Farbe der augen (eye colour) - Braungrau (Brown grey)
Farbe der haares (hair colour) - Schwarz (Black)
Besond kennzeichen (Special Marks) - /

Sorry, I can’t read any of the writing on the visa page of this man, because the photos are too blurred.


Lora Drechsler.

Geruf (Job) - Haushalt (Household)
Geburtsort (Place of birth) - Wien
Geburtstag (Birthday) - 24.7.1908
Wohnort (Place of residence) - Wien
Gestalt (Shape) - mittelgroß (Medium size)
Gesicht (face) - Oval
Farbe der augen (eye colour) - Graublau (Grey Blue)
Farbe der haares (hair colour) - ? Blond
Besond kennzeichen (Special Marks) - /

Page 9 - It looks like she was granted a work visa dated 27h July 1939 (Id imagine this was issued by the British Embassy in Vienna) for ‘domestic employment’ in a private household, maybe employed as something like a maid. She arrived at immigration control in Dover, England on the 22nd of August 1939.