A laissez-passer — the safe-conduct paper used when borders are unsettled and ordinary passports are not enough — issued to the Jeannopoulos family of Soma, Anatolia around 1920. It predates the 1922 catastrophe by about two years and covers the family through the unstable period that preceded their final departure from the region. The Ottoman Empire was disintegrating; Greek populations in Anatolia were already moving under duress; this is the document that let the household move at all.
The children Takis (b. 1911), John Lazare (b. 1911), Mary (~1914), Constantine (b. 1916), and Achilles (b. 1920, an infant at filing) may also appear on the document depending on how it was drawn.
