Palestinian Jewish unit of the British Army (1944–1946)
For other Jewish regiments, see Jewish Legion (disambiguation).
Jewish Brigade
Insignia and sleeve patch of the Jewish Brigade
Active
1944–1946
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Type
Infantry
Size
5,000 Palestinian Jews
Engagements
Second World War
Italian Campaign
Commanders
Notable commanders
Ernest Benjamin
Military unit
The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group,[1] more commonly known as the Jewish Brigade Group[2] or Jewish Brigade,[3] was a military formation of the British Army in the Second World War. It was formed in late 1944[1][2] and was recruited among Yishuv Jews from Mandatory Palestine and commanded by Anglo-Jewish officers. It served in the latter stages of the Italian Campaign, and was disbanded in 1946.
After the war, some members of the Brigade assisted Holocaust survivors to illegally emigrate to Mandatory Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet, in defiance of British restrictions. Other members formed the vigilante groups Gmul and the Tilhas Tizig Gesheften, which assassinated hundreds of German, Austrian, and Italian war criminals.[4][5] There were also at least two instances in which Brigade veterans were implicated in the assassinations of Jewish Kapos.[6]
^ abAdler, Cyrus; Henrietta Szold (1946). American Jewish Year Book, Volume 48. American Jewish Committee. p. 69. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
^ abTeaching About the Holocaust: A Resource Book for Educators. DIANE Publishing. 1995. p. 27. ISBN 1-4289-2637-2.
^Medoff (2002), page 111
^Medoff, Rafael (July 2, 2002). Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817310714 – via Google Books.
^Paraszczuk, Joanna (March 12, 2010). "'We proved to the world that we can fight'. Veterans attend a special showing in Tel Aviv of Chuck Olin's award-winning documentary about the outstanding all-Jewish Brigade that helped defeat Hitler". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
^Porat, Dan (2019-10-15). Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators. Harvard University Press. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-0-674-24313-2.
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