Bidspirit auction | German Jewish ”J” Stamped Passport

German Jewish ”J” Stamped Passport - Estate Grouping - German Jewish Emigrant Estate Archive with ”J”-Stamped Reisepass Massive Grouping from a man who escaped Nazi Germany. A Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued in the name Israel Auerwerk, bearing the red ”J” stamp used to designate Jewish citizens under the Nazi regime, together with a personal photograph and personal description page inside. The archive further includes a substantial assemblage of family photographs, several small photo albums bound in tooled and plain covers, a book titled ”Mein Lebenslauf, ” a Reichsmitgliedsbuch of the Deutschen Demokratischen Partei, a red Driver's Licence booklet, Western Union telegram forms, and assorted loose documents, envelopes, and snapshots. Hundreds of photos, five photo albums, numerous ID's, documents, etc. The ”J” stamp was introduced in October 1938 as part of Nazi Germany's escalating bureaucratic identification of Jewish citizens, applied to passports to restrict travel and mark holders for state surveillance. Passports of this type, especially when retained together with a family's broader personal papers and photographs, offer a rare window into the documentary experience of Jewish life and emigration under the Third Reich, tracing an individual and family through identification papers, portraiture, and everyday correspondence. The 5 Reichsmark coin was a large silver denomination issued in Germany from the early 1930s through the Nazi period, continuing a coinage tradition established under the Weimar Republic. After 1933 the design was altered to incorporate National Socialist symbolism alongside the traditional eagle, reflecting the regime's practice of adapting existing state institutions and currency to its own iconography. Such coins remained in general circulation as legal tender until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945.