The core of what would later become the Jewish Brigade was formed when the British began recruiting Jewish volunteers from Palestine into the Royal East Kent Regiment ("the Buffs"), to be used as …

Dec 13, 2025 · The Jewish Brigade was instrumental in helping the war effort for the Allied forces in World War II and later helped track down Holocaust survivors and bring them to the Land of Israel.

The Jewish Agency in Palestine works to bring Jews in who are fleeing from Europe, laying claim to more and more land in Palestine in order to build settlements for the new arrivals.

Established by the British war cabinet in 1944 as the only Jewish military unit to fight the Axis powers. The Jewish Brigade represented the culmination of efforts by Jews in both Palestine and the United …

Apr 1, 2025 · The Jewish Brigade Group, a unique military formation within the British Army during World War II, served as a critical bridge between the Holocaust’s devastation and the establishment …

At the war's end, members of the Jewish Brigade helped prepare Displaced Persons for "illegal" immigration to Palestine. The British disbanded the brigade in July 1946.

After much hesitation, on July 3, 1944, the British government consented to the establishment of a Jewish Brigade with hand-picked Jewish and also non-Jewish senior officers.

After Churchill agreed to allow the formation of an all-Jewish fighting force to do battle with the Nazis, a Jewish Brigade Group was formed and allowed to fight under a Zionist flag.

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 that served in Europe during the Second …

Formed in 1944, despite strong reservations by the British, who feared an escalation of Jewish-Arab tensions in Palestine. It numbered some 5,000 men and saw service in Egypt, north Italy, and the …