![A British recruitment poster encourages Jews in Palestine to enlist in the Jewish Brigade group. [LCID: 08346]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c7650c7d-a90e-4e7f-b1e3-1b113558db76.jpg "A British recruitment poster encourages Jews in Palestine to enlist in the Jewish Brigade group. [LCID: 08346]")
A British recruitment poster encourages Jews in Palestine to enlist in the Jewish Brigade Group. Palestine, January 1945.
The Jewish Brigade Group of the British army, which fought under the Zionist flag, was formally established in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine organized into three infantry battalions and several supporting units.
Item View![Soldiers and vehicles of the Jewish Brigade, which participated in the final Allied offensive in Italy. [LCID: 40344]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c1f7a4ba-b004-4d95-bcd9-052229a63f0b.jpeg "Soldiers and vehicles of the Jewish Brigade, which participated in the final Allied offensive in Italy. [LCID: 40344]")
Soldiers and vehicles of the Jewish Brigade Group, which participated in the final Allied offensive in Italy. Italy, March 24, 1945.
Item View![Brigadier General Ernest Frank Benjamin, commanding officer of the Jewish Brigade, inspects the Second Battalion. [LCID: 87420]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/621ba571-a23a-46bb-9f9b-245b2dbbb17e.jpeg "Brigadier General Ernest Frank Benjamin, commanding officer of the Jewish Brigade, inspects the Second Battalion. [LCID: 87420]")
Brigadier Ernest Frank Benjamin, commanding officer of the Jewish Brigade, inspects the Second Battalion. Palestine, October 1944.
The Jewish Brigade Group of the British army, which fought under the Zionist flag, was formally established in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine organized into three infantry battalions and several supporting units.
Item View![A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a group of survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp preparing ... [LCID: 02274]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e43d64ee-c154-4f67-8495-094379f81e4e.jpeg "A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of \"Kibbutz Buchenwald,\" a group of survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp preparing ... [LCID: 02274]")
A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald." "Kibbutz Buchenwald" was a group of survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp who were preparing for agricultural work in Palestine. Antwerp, Belgium, 1946.
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