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	Jewish Brigade Group
		The establishment of the Brigade was the final outcome of prolonged efforts by the yishuv and the Zionist Movement to achieve recognized participation and representation of the Jewish people in the war against Nazi Germany.
		After a period of training in Egypt, the Jewish Brigade Group — approximately 5,000 soldiers — took part in the final battles of the war on the Italian front under the command of the Canadian-born Jew, Brigadier Ernest Benjamin.
		Skills gained in the Jewish Brigade and in the British army in general was experience that would be put to use again during Israel's War of Independence.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/brigade.html (490 words)

	Jewish Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fifteen Palestinian Jewish battalions were incorporated into the British Army in September 1940 and fought in Greece in 1941.
		Under the command of Brigadier Ernest Benjamin, the Jewish Brigade fought against the Germans in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May 1945, then it was stationed in Tarvisio, near the border triangle of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Austria.
		In July 1945, the Brigade moved to Belgium and the Netherlands and the Jewish Brigade Group was disbanded in the summer of 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Brigade (701 words)

	Photo Archives Query Results
		Jewish Brigade soldiers transport Jewish DPs by truck in The Netherlands.
		A Jewish Brigade soldier poses at the entrance to Brigade headquarters in The Netherlands.
		Jewish Brigade soldier Arthur Einhorn poses with his father at the entrance to a building during their first postwar reunion.
	www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_query/photos?hr=null&query=kw121901 (1307 words)

	The Holocaust Events \| Web Creator: Emilio Redroban
		The Jewish Brigade Group (a Palestinian Jewish unit in the British army) was formed in late 1944.
		Jewish units fought with the Allies in Greece in 1941; 100 Palestinian Jews were killed there and 1,700 captured by the Germans.
		The Jewish Brigade Group of the British army, which fought under the Zionist flag, was formally established in September 1944.
	www.freewebs.com /emilio16 (785 words)

	The Zionist Century \| Concepts \| Struggle and Defense
		In Constantinople, the Arab members of parliament denounced Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel and described the Zionist Movement as a danger to the Ottoman Empire.
		The British military authorities gave the Arabs a free hand, while arresting the Jewish defenders, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
		Jewish property was burnt, Jewish passersby were murdered, and Jewish settlements were attacked.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/concepts/d2.html (1041 words)

	The Jewish Brigade
		The Headquarters of the Brigade was formed in September 1944.
		The Jewish Brigade wore standard British uniform, with the addition of the Jewish Brigade patch on the sleeve.
		Israel Tal, a veteran of the Jewish Brigade photographed in Belgium in 1946, wearing the distinctive Brigade patch.
	members.shaw.ca /madorosh/jewish.htm (187 words)

	The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Jewish combatants of the Spanish war, and first and foremost those who overcame the resistance of the I.B.[International Brigade] leadership to gain the right to fight under Jewish banners and as members of the Jewish nationality, ought to be recognized as an integral part of the Jewish armed resistance against the Nazi enemy.
		Instead, the Jewish Brigade was moved to Tarvisio on the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslav border in the Julian Alps.
		The Jewish agencies, such as the British Jewish Relief Committee and the American Joint Distribution Committee were in Rome, and both were overwhelmed by the numbers of refugees on the move, most moving south with hopes of reaching Eretz Israel one way or another.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/svc.htm (10272 words)

	WWII Forums: The Jewish Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Jewish Brigade was raised in Egypt from settlers recruited in Palestine in 1944 and moved to Italy at the end of the year.
		The establishment of the Brigade was the final outcome of prolonged efforts by the yishuv and the Zionist Movement to achieve recognized participation and representation of the Jewish people in the war against Nazi Germany.
		Skills gained in the Jewish Brigade and in the British army in general was experience that would be put to use again during Israel's War of Independence.
	www.ww2forums.com /cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=38;t=000045 (1409 words)

	Jewish Warriors
		The escapees from the Novaky labor camp who formed an independent Jewish brigade were members of Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist organization, and had conducted uniformed drills in the camp prior to the 1944 Slovak uprising that gave them their chance to escape.
		Indeed, when you track the Jewish partisan groups, you discover that the survival rates of those who fought back, despite the odds against them, was significantly greater than the survival rates of those who passively accepted going to the camps or cooperated with the Germans.
		In Slovakia, for example, the general Jewish survival rate was 7.8% (7.2% after post-liberation trauma casualties), while the survival rate among the Jewish partisans was approximately 85%.
	www.geocities.com /jewishwarriors/resistww.html (583 words)

	Film Synopsis of IN OUR OWN HANDS
		Within the Brigade, the Haganah had its own secret leadership and a separate agenda that would not be revealed until after the war.
		The Allied command, not recognizing Jewish refugees as having their own identities, was intent on returning them to their former countries where new and violent anti-Semitism has already claimed hundreds of lives.
		The Jewish Brigade, under its Haganah leadership and under the noses of the British, put the plan to work.
	www.olinfilms.com /brigade/synopsis.html (844 words)

	The Brigade : An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Some Allied officers and politicians feared the creation of a Jewish brigade; the Allies knew that there would be more than a late contribution to the Allied war effort from these highly motvated soldiers.
		Also known as the Jewish Fighting Brigade, it was formed in 1994 and played a critical role in the defeat of the Nazi armies in Northern Italy in 1945 as integral part of the British 8th Army.
		The Brigade was the first organized Jewish Army since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE/AD and Howard Bloom captures well their struggles, anguish and triumphs.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:006093283X (1089 words)

	JLGB WEB SITE
		Also on Camp this year, the Brigade was proud to have 24 Israeli Zofim (Israeli Scouts), 2 participants of the Gold Israel Award (Israel's version of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award), 4 Young Jewish people from France and one all the way from America.
		Ginny Offord, aged 15, was one of the 8 representatives of the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade (JLGB) who accompanied hundreds of survivors and ex-servicemen and women to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
		It was the biggest JLGB Camp in nine years and one of the biggest Jewish Summer Camps held around the country.
	www.jlgb.org (2537 words)

	Jewish Brigade - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, Belgium, British Army, Egypt, ...
		The President of the World Zionist Organization Chaim Weizmann offered the British government full cooperation of the Jewish community in British Mandate of Palestine and tried to negotiate the establishnment of identifiably Jewish fighting unit (under a Jewish flag) under the auspices of British Army.
		In July 1945, the Brigade moved to Belgium and the Netherlands.
		The Jewish Brigade Group was disbanded in the summer of 1946.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Jewish_Brigade.html (466 words)

	The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps
		The Jewish combatants of the Spanish war, and first and foremost those who overcame the resistance of the I.B.[International Brigade] leadership to gain the right to fight under Jewish banners and as members of the Jewish nationality, ought to be recognized as an integral part of the Jewish armed resistance against the Nazi enemy.
		Instead, the Jewish Brigade was moved to Tarvisio on the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslav border in the Julian Alps.
		The Jewish agencies, such as the British Jewish Relief Committee and the American Joint Distribution Committee were in Rome, and both were overwhelmed by the numbers of refugees on the move, most moving south with hopes of reaching Eretz Israel one way or another.
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/comment/svc.htm (10272 words)

	naroc_partisans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The head of the brigade, Colonel Markov, was in support of this idea, both because he wanted to enlarge the operative missions and because he wanted to establish contact between the Communist underground and the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto, as well as cells of Jews who hid in Vilna outside of the ghetto.
		All the hopes for enlarging this Jewish division were based on the belief that they could bring young people from the ghettos in the surrounding shtetls to this division, especially those from the Vilna Ghetto area, where there was an FPO underground.
		When the Polish brigade arrived, the Soviets put fifteen of the commanders in a line and, after they [the Soviets] read what [the commnders] were guilty of, which was resistance to the Soviet rulers, they were killed on the spot.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /Svencionys/naroch_partisans.html (16204 words)

	Jewish Post - News - The Jewish Brigade - The Mother of the State of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hanoch Bartov, who joined the Brigade as a young member of the Hagana, is one of the prominent 'heroes' of this 90 minute documentary.
		That is the reason, for example, that the British objected to the establishment of a Jewish Brigade.
		Hanoch Bartov was born in Petach Tikvah in 1926.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0606/jpn0606b.htm (1686 words)

	September 28: Churchill Announces Formation of Jewish Brigade
		The Brigade Group took part in the early stages of the Allies’ final offensive in Italy in April 1945 and then was withdrawn for reorganization.
		After the termination of hostilities, the Brigade Group was stationed in Tarvisio, near the border triangle of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Austria.
		Despite last-moment attempts by the Jewish Agency to prolong the existence of the Brigade Group, the British were determined to disband it according to their demobilization plan, and this was accomplished in June and July of 1946.
	yad-vashem.org.il /about_holocaust/chronology/1942-1945/1944/chronology_1944_25.html (383 words)

	The Zionist Century \| Concepts \| Struggle and Defense
		In the last quarter of the 19th century, when the first Jewish agricultural settlements came into being (see First Aliyah), the Jewish settlers had to cope with border friction, disputes over water rights and intrusions on their crops and property.
		It headed a movement of volunteers, from which Jewish units were formed for service in the British army (see Jewish Brigade Group).
		It was not until September 1944, however, that the British government agreed to the establishment of a Jewish Brigade.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/concepts/d1.html (2454 words)

	September 28: Churchill Announces Formation of Jewish Brigade
		The Brigade Group took part in the early stages of the Allies’ final offensive in Italy in April 1945 and then was withdrawn for reorganization.
		After the termination of hostilities, the Brigade Group was stationed in Tarvisio, near the border triangle of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Austria.
		Despite last-moment attempts by the Jewish Agency to prolong the existence of the Brigade Group, the British were determined to disband it according to their demobilization plan, and this was accomplished in June and July of 1946.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_holocaust/chronology/1942-1945/1944/chronology_1944_25.html (383 words)

	Second World War Books: Review
		As he explains throughout the book, although Jewish residents of Palestine volunteered in large numbers for service in the British Army from the outbreak of war onward, due to political considerations and other difficulties the recruits were permitted to serve only in labor, transport, and other service units.
		Upon cessation of hostilities, members of the Jewish Brigade, acting under instructions from Palestine rather than the British Army, began exacting revenge among those Germans at hand who were deemed guilty of war crimes.
		Some might also be distracted because The Jewish Brigade is written in the sort of simplistic, fl and white language that seems to idealize every aspect of the brigade and its members while presuming all readers will be entirely comfortable with the author's world view.
	stonebooks.com /archives/990124.shtml (1005 words)

	Jewish Brigade Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This regiment was a precursor to the Jewish Brigade Group.
		Brigade members also became involved in organizing the flight of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and their clandestine entry into Palestine.
		Britain disbanded the Jewish Brigade Group in the summer of 1946.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005275 (361 words)

	Amazon.com: The Brigade : An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II: Books: Howard Blum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A 5000-man "Jewish Brigade" was formed from settlers in Palestine, but it was not until the waning days of the war, in November 1944, that the British sent it to fight.
		The Jewish Brigade had little impact on the outcome of World War II, but its existence was critical to the future state of Israel.
		The Jewish fighters are proud, heroic and consecrated to their vision; they become increasingly aware of their role in a Jewish future.
	www.amazon.com /Brigade-Story-Vengeance-Salvation-World/dp/0060194863 (2020 words)

	Jewish units in the British Army
		He said that companies of Jewish soldiers from Palestine used to have an unofficial flag — a Union Jack with the blue-white flag in canton.
		According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, white and blue flag was adopted by Jewish Brigade Group in WWII (like the current one?).
		I would guess that this flag (which was not the brigade's) was blue and white like the current Israeli one, but the stripes are a little thinner, and the lines of the star are very thin.
	flagspot.net /flags/il^gb.html (1225 words)

	Second World War Books: Review
		As he explains throughout the book, although Jewish residents of Palestine volunteered in large numbers for service in the British Army from the outbreak of war onward, due to political considerations and other difficulties the recruits were permitted to serve only in labor, transport, and other service units.
		Upon cessation of hostilities, members of the Jewish Brigade, acting under instructions from Palestine rather than the British Army, began exacting revenge among those Germans at hand who were deemed guilty of war crimes.
		Some might also be distracted because The Jewish Brigade is written in the sort of simplistic, fl and white language that seems to idealize every aspect of the brigade and its members while presuming all readers will be entirely comfortable with the author's world view.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/990124.shtml (1005 words)

	The Jewish Brigade
		The Headquarters of the Brigade was formed in September 1944.
		After a brief training period in Egypt, the Brigade moved to Italy in October for more intensive preparations, after which the 5500 man formation moved north by road, and into the front lines as part of the British Eighth Army.
		Israel Tal, a veteran of the Jewish Brigade photographed in Belgium in 1946, wearing the distinctive Brigade patch.
	britmods.freehosting.net /jewish.htm (295 words)

	1998 SFJFF - In Our Own Hands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Its Hebrew slogan: "Vengence and Salvation!" reflects the intense feelings of soldiers who fought in the Brigade to avenge those millions, including their families, who were lost in the Holocaust, to care for survivors, and to help so many get to Palestine.
		Jewish soldiers in the British Army (right), carrying a Torah to a religious service in the desert, Middle East, 1941.
		The film reveals the intricate political maneuvering of Zionist leaders who were able to convince British authorities first to agree to a Jewish fighting unit and secondly to allow it to fly the blue and white flag that was later to become the Israeli flag.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff18/programs/p0722f.html (343 words)

	1998 SFJFF - Director Chuck Olin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jewish Brigade veteran Johanan Peltz who served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the British Army during World War II.
		The flag mutiny of 1943, Benghazi, Egypt, in which a battalion of the Palestine Regiment, which later became the nucleus of the Jewish Brigade, disobeyed British Army regulations and flew the Jewish flag.
		As an amateur historian and longtime activist in Jewish causes, it is Mr.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff18/filmmakers/d0722f-a.html (1007 words)

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