Gift of Albert Meyer

Id no. 1056.89, Document, German

January 19 1939, Frankfurt, Germany

Subject(s):  Race laws

This German passport was issued to Moses Distelburger (b. 1881) on January 19, 1939. As of October 5,1938, German Jews were required to have the letter "J" stamped in their passports. As of January 1, 1939, all Jews who did not have a clearly recognizable Jewish name were forced to take the middle names of "Israel" (for men) and "Sara" (for women).