GB 1556 WL 1284 - Jewish Brigade: Copy material

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GB 1556 WL 1284 [1940-1980] Collection level 1 file Depositor

The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group was a military formation of the British Army that served in Europe during the Second World War. Although the brigade was formed in 1944, some of its experienced personnel had been employed against the Axis powers in Greece, the Middle East and East Africa. More than 30,000 Palestinian Jews volunteered to serve in the British Armed Forces, 734 of whom died during the war.

The brigade and its predecessors, the Palestine Regiment and the three infantry companies that had formed it, were composed primarily of Middle Eastern Jews. The brigade was nevertheless inclusive to all Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers so that by 1944 over 50 nationalities were represented. Many were refugees displaced from countries that had been occupied or controlled by the Axis powers in Europe and Ethiopia. Volunteers from the United Kingdom, its empire, the Commonwealth, and other 'western democracies' also provided contingents.

David Spector

Photocopies of material relating to the activities of the Jewish Brigade in Palestine, [1940-1980], including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a short essay.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

English

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

February 2008 Wars (events) Armed forces British Army Colonial forces Jewish Infantry Brigade Group Jews Middle East Military organizations Organizations Palestine Religious groups World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

David Spector

Photocopies of material relating to the activities of the Jewish Brigade in Palestine, [1940-1980], including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a short essay.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

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• latim

English

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• inglês