Letterhead acquired by 17 year old Jutta Rosen while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Palestine after the war. The Brigade, established in British ruled Palestine in September 1944, fought against Nazi Germany in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May. Postwar, the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors. Many Brigade members were involved ...

Documentary of Jewish life in Nowogrodek, Lithuania. Scenes include the countryside, the marketplace, a crowded synagogue courtyard just after Sabbath prayers, a children's summer camp, sporting events, the local fire brigade at work, a vocational training class, a yeshiva in session, the local theater, hospital, orphanage and cemetery. The film centers on a visit by the Yiddish lexicographer Alexander ...

Describes the struggle between Jewish and non-Jewish organizations for custody of ca. 1,000 orphaned Jewish children who survived in hiding in the Netherlands. Relates their experiences in hiding, including attempts at conversion, actual conversion, and antisemitism. The government's Commissie voor Oorlogspleegkinderen (OPK), consisting of a majority of non-Jewish members, received temporary custody ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors, Michael Brenner presents a remarkable history of this period. While much has been written on the Holocaust itself, until now little has been known about the fate of those survivors who remained ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

David Mellows was secretary of the Association of Jewish Youth and subsequently secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks.

Aharon Lazer was a Jewish soldier in the 1st Palestine Light Anti-Aircraft Battery of the 202 Field Artillery Regiment and served in Cyprus, Italy, Germany, and other locations in Europe.

Paper Israeli flag: gift from the Jewish Brigade to Belgian children. [Belgium?, ca. 1945].Single leaf, printed on both sides (hand-printed, not professional). Printed on one side are a Star of David between two light-blue stripes and the verse "The redeemed of the L-d shall return, and come with singing unto Zion" (Isiah, 51, 11). Printed on the other side are a Star of David between two light-blue ...

Consists of more than 300 letters and several paper items written by soldier Avraham Slitinsky, while he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Eindehoven, Delft, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Italy and other places in Europe. Written to his wife Michal who lived in Tel Aviv, the letters describe life in the British Army and Europe. Some of the topics mentioned in the letters insclude a dispute ...

Documents detailing the service of Aron Glass in the Palestine Police and the Jewish Brigade, from 1941-1946, including soldier's pay book, discharge papers, photographs, a naturalization certificate granting him citizenship in Palestine (1940), and a later Israeli passport (1956).

Immediately after World War II, groups consisting of former partisans, survivors of concentration camps, and soldiers of the "Jewish Brigade" planned revenge against Nazi perpetrators. Focuses on the group called Nakam (Revenge) which was affiliated with the "Jewish Brigade" from Palestine. Based on interviews with former members of the group now living in Israel, recounts some of their revenge actions ...

Consists of four enlarged photographs taken of members of the Jewish Brigade, likely taken in the Netherlands in 1946, and one enlarged photograph taken of the interior of an exhibit entitled "Les Juifs en France" ["The Jews in France"] described on the verso as the version of the exhibit shown in Bordeaux, France, in March 1942. The photographs were collected by Esther Kerdeman, who worked for the ...

A collection of articles by the author, published between 1944-89 in the "Revue de Paris", describing Jewish participation in the French resistance movement against the Nazis. Discusses the Jewish presence in the International Brigades in Spain, and in resistance organizations (e.g. FTP) in France, as well as the suffering of those sent to the Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande camps and to forced labor ...

Elisheva (Ellis) Lehman (nee Cohen-Paraira) was born in Amsterdam on April 22, 1924. Her brother Abraham (Bram or Bob) was born on August 25, 1926. They were raised in Scheveningen, a seaside town in the Hague. Their mother, Susie Nabarro, died of cancer in 1938, and their father, David, remarried in 1941. David was an artist and, later, a traveling salesman for a cigar factory. At the age of 17, Ellis ...

Consists of a black and white image of fourteen children and two adults standing and seated together outside; verso: handwritten in blue ink “April 1944/Bari – Italy/Jewish children/saved by members/of the Jewish/Brigade – 8th Army”; dated April 1944; Bari, Italy.

The Territorial Photographic Collection contains photographs of Jewish life in more than 65 different countries. There is a series concerning Belgium, totalling 57 folders. Folders “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp I”, “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp II”, “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp III” and “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp IV” contain portraits of people wearing the yellow star. In folders “Belgium ...

Copyright Holder: Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer

Tombstone fragment with engraved Hebrew text recovered long after the war by William (formerly Wolf) Ungar from the Jewish cemetery in Rimaliv, Tarnopol District, Ukraine, formerly eastern Poland. Wolf was mobilized into the Polish Army when Germany invaded in September 1939. He was wounded, captured, released, and then returned to Lwow (Lviv, Ukraine), now under Soviet control. In June 1941, Germany ...

Consists of a soldier's passbook and two documents certifying employment and good conduct, which were issued to Mr. Andrey Freund, a member of the British Forces, Jewish Brigade. The passbook notes his World War II inoculations, training, and other pieces of information, though there are few details about his presence in military theatres. Also includes two documents, both dated May 1948, attesting ...

Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; ...