Artifaces
- Passports
Here is a passport belonging to Olga Reiss. We can tell a lot from this type
of artefact. The Red 'J' printed on the passport showed what German passports
issued to Jews were like, and Olga Reiss's middle name 'Sara' shows how Jewish
people were forced to change their middle names, Israel for men and Sara for
the women. This came into force on the 17 of August 1938. Passports could also
be used to trace the journey of people at the time; many Jews moved from one
place to another, in an attempt to escape the racial state.
