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Album of Photographs, Collection of Newspapers and a New Year Greeting Card – The Jewish Brigade and the Palestine ...
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Album of Photographs, Collection of Newspapers and a New Year Greeting Card – The Jewish Brigade and the Palestine Regiment
Am album of photographs documenting soldiers of the Jewish Brigade in Holland, a New Year greeting card with the emblem of the Brigade and a collection of newspapers issued by the Jewish Brigade and the Palestine Regiment. [North Africa, Italy and Holland, ca. 1944-1946].
1. Album with 30 photographs of Jewish Brigade soldiers by press photographer Felix Baehr (ca. 1945-1946): parades and roll calls, Brigadier Ernest Frank Benjamin, commanding officer of the Jewish Brigade, German POW soldiers sweeping streets with Brigade soldiers on guard, military vehicles marked with the Jewish Brigade emblem driving around the streets, portrait photographs of Brigade soldiers, and more. Photographer's stamp to inside front cover.
2. A printed greeting card for Rosh Hashanah 1945/1946, with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade and a verse from the book of Micha (Hebrew). Inscribed with the soldier's name on recto and his military ID number on verso.
3. "Our Company – the Fifth company (12) – the Second Hebrew Regiment" (Hebrew), a booklet printed to mark the third anniversary of the establishment of the company. May 1944. Illustrations on the title page and last pages.
4-5. "News of the Day, the Second Hebrew Regiment, the Palestine Regiment" (Hebrew). Issues no. 78 and 82, May and June 1944. Accompanied by illustrations, most of which are signed in the plate "Harari" (Yehuda Harari?).
6. "For the Soldier, Daily Newspaper for Hebrew Soldiers in Europe" (Hebrew). The front page of issue no. 321, from March 1945. Headlined: "The Jewish Brigade Fighting at the Front of the 8th Army" (Hebrew).
Enclosed: English Army News, issue no. 134, March 1945, with a front page article about the Jewish Brigade; a clipping with a picture of Brigade soldiers.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
