Passe [Passport]. Jewish passport issued under the Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost [the German adminstration of Ober-Ost] on January 28 1917, with the ink-stamp "Verwaltungsgebiet Litauen" - the administrative region of Lithuania.
The passport was issued by the German authority in areas temporarily occupied during WWI [including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, and areas in Poland and Courland]. The sections are written in Yiddish and German. Among the regulations, there are sections which detail penalties of between five and ten years in prison for a person found without a passport, with a forged passport, etc. There are also penalties for a person who does not report loss of his passport within 24 hours. The passport contains a photograph of the photograph's owner - an esteemed-looking Jew, and his fingerprint.
[4] leaves. 15 cm. Few stains. Fine condition.