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

The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was created after the Nazis came to power in 1933. It presided over radio, the press, and cultural institutions, and controlled the sphere of art. Every department of the ministry engaged in antisemitic propaganda. Works by Jewish authors were banned and destroyed. Antisemitic ideas were espoused in radio broadcasts and in leaflets and pamphlets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...