1945 – VINTAGE ISRAELI POSTERS

Vintage Tin sign “Nabob” Locks 1945 Palestine

NOAM BARNON — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:42:05 +0000

Beautiful tin sign for “Nabob” Locks.

‘Nabob’ is one of the oldest companies in Israel manufacturing locks.

Very Good Condition

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25 ANNIVERSARY for Keren Hayesod VINTAGE POSTER 1945

farkash — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:19:07 +0000

Original Sketch for vintage poster water color on paper of 25 ANNIVERSARY for Keren Hayesod

Condition is good, some stains of moisture on the paper

Keren Hayesod was established at the World Zionist Congress in London on July 7–24, 1920 to provide the Zionist movement with resources needed to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It came in response to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which stated that “his Majesty’s government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” – turning the ages-old dream of the return to Zion into a politically feasible goal.

Keren Hayesod established fundraising organizations around the world. Early leaders included Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein and Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

During the 1920s, Keren Hayesod began to lay the groundwork for a Jewish National Home and helped raise funds to establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bank Hapoalim and various physical projects. In 1926, Keren Hayesod relocated its headquarters from London to Jerusalem. With the establishment of the Jewish Agency in 1929, Keren Hayesod became its fundraising arm while continuing its own wide-ranging activities.

The effects of the worldwide economic depression of 1929 hit Keren Hayesod hard, but after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Keren Hayesod helped to develop the Haifa Bay suburbs to provide housing for German Jews fleeing the Nazis. Towards this end, the Rassco construction company was established in 1934. In 1936, Keren Hayesod supported the establishment of what would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to provide employment for refugee musicians.

With the help of donations from all over the Jewish world, Keren Hayesod established over 900 urban and rural settlements in Israel, provided housing and jobs for new immigrants. During and after World War II, it launched emergency campaigns, sometimes in partnership with other organizations. Funds were used to help the Allied war effort and when the concentration camps were liberated to smuggle survivors into Palestine in defiance of British immigration restrictions.

Many Keren Hayesod leaders were murdered in the Holocaust. In March 1948, a car bomb was detonated in the courtyard of the building, killing twelve people, including the director of Keren Hayesod, Leib Yaffe.[1]

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Hebrew Youth, “Join The Navy Jewish brigade” Rare Vintage Israeli Poster – Israel 1945

farkash — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:30:56 +0000

Rare Poster. Hebrew Youth, Join The Navy Jewish brigade vintage Poster 1945

Hebrew youth, joined the Navy. Registration in the recruitment offices Of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel. Palestine

Design: Shamir Bros

כרזה “אל הצי” התגייס לחיל הים הבריטי הבריגדה היהודית מלחמת העולם השניה 1945
עיצוב האחים שמיר

The Jewish Brigade – A Fighting Force Of The British Army
The Jewish Brigade was a military formation of the British Army. It was established in the fall of 1944 and was composed of some 5,000 Jewish volunteers living in what was then British-mandated Palestine. The Jews in Palestine had long sought to serve in the allied cause in World War II as a distinct fighting force, but these aspirations were resisted by the British military authorities until nearly the end of the war.

The British Mandate

The brigade operated under the leadership of Ernest Frank Benjamin, a Canadian-born British Jewish officer who had served with distinction in the British Army since 1919. Benjamin oversaw the training of the brigade in Egypt, and his eventual deployment to the Eighth Army in Italy .

In Italy, the group saw action against the Germans in crossing the Senior River in northeast Italy in March and April 1945. Following VE Day, on May 8, 1945, the Jewish Brigade was sent to Tarvisio on the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslav border. There they searched for Holocaust survivors, provided them with assistance, and assisted in their escape from Europe and immigration to Palestine.

So after the war, a group of former Jewish Brigade members – under the guise of British military activity – engaged in the assassination of Nazis and smuggled cweaponry to the Haganah Jewish defense forces in Palestine.

In July 1945 the brigade was sent to the Netherlands and then to Belgium. The Jewish Brigade was eventually disbanded in June 1946. Many of the veterans of the Jewish Brigade went on to serve in senior positions in the Israel Defense Forces following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

In December 1945, Benjamin was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He eventually retired from the army in September 1950, having exceeded the age limit, and was granted the honorary rank of brigadier.

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Rare Vintage Israeli Poster call woman to join the “Jewish Brigade” in the British army 1945 WW2 “Come on Help us win”

farkash — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:22:15 +0000

Extremely rare Vintage Israeli Poster calls woman to join the “Jewish Brigade” in the British army 1945 WW2 “Come on Help us win”

“Come on Help us win”

Brigadier General Israela Oron, O.C Women’s Corps, and Esther Herlitz, presenter, at “Dor l’Dor Yabia Omer,” a meeting held on the occasion of a visit of Women Veterans of ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) to the Chen Training Camp in Sarafand, June 19, 1996.

ATS and WAAF in World War II

by Esther Herlitz

The Yishuv regarded the war against Nazi Germany (World War II) as its own. At the behest of the Jewish Agency, thirty thousand men volunteered for the British Army between 1939 and 1946. Only when the Council of Women’s Organizations called for the recruitment of women as well was an agreement reached with the British authorities to enlist women into the forces. The first to join, on January 25, 1942, was a small group of sixty women to be trained as officers and N.C.O.s for the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Women for the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) were drafted only on May 25, 1943. The call was for women between twenty and forty-five years of age. Altogether 4,350 Palestinian women volunteers joined the British Armed Forces “for the duration of emergency.” Most were discharged in 1946.

The subject of women serving in the British army was initially controversial in the Yishuv. Questions were raised about the moral issue as well as the appropriateness of leaving the country at a time when German General Erwin Rommel was advancing on Egypt. Considerable effort was invested in a large-scale recruitment drive, which turned out to be successful.

Women of all walks of life and age groups, married and single, joined up. In some cases, both husband and wife joined. Some were illiterate, and some were highly educated. A great many were recent young immigrants, mostly Youth Aliyah graduates who had no permanent homes in the country.

[An ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruiting parade in Rishon Le-Zion (March 22, 1942), commemorating sixty years since the founding of the city. Esther Herlitz is in the line furthest to the right, fifth from the front. Image credit: Esther Herlitz.]

Basic training of a month took place at the central British military base at Sarafand in Palestine. The women were posted to sixteen ATS units in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. Toward the end of the war, several ATS members were sent to Italy and Austria. ATS camps were separate companies under women officers. The top echelon was entirely British; only two companies were fully under “Palestinian” command. The women’s army identification numbers ran as W/Pal, and they wore the insignia “Palestine” on their sleeves.

Uniforms of the ATS were all khaki, from underwear to stockings, shirts, battle dresses, and skirts. Only the drivers wore trousers. The heavy material did not suit the Middle East climate. The blue WAAF uniforms were the envy of all, as were those of the United States and South African women contingents.

A company of ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits and instructors at the Sarafand training depot, February 1943. British Commanding Officer Major Pratt is in the second row from the bottom, fourth from the left. Institution: Esther Herlitz.**

The ATS was employed in a great number of tasks. They did not carry arms but worked in arms and ammunition depots and repaired various kinds of arms. The Haganah was keenly interested in these jobs since they provided vital training for later use by the Yishuv. Most of the women were storekeepers in the vast Army Ordnance Depots spread all over the Middle East. Many were drivers of heavy trucks, buses, staff cars, and ambulances. They drove convoys into the Western Desert, often under aerial bombardment, as well as from Egypt through the Sinai Desert to Haifa port. Some were nursing orderlies (none were nurses), some were clerks and switchboard operators, some folded parachutes, some coded and decoded cables, some operated radar stations. The WAAF also worked in aerial photography, meteorological services, spare parts, plotting, and in the operation rooms.

The ATS and WAAF officers and Other Ranks tried very hard to maintain a Jewish and Zionist atmosphere in their camps. First and foremost, they insisted on the use of Hebrew and the translation of orders and instructions into Hebrew. Attempts were made to celebrate Friday nights and Jewish holidays together with male units such as the Jewish Brigade and with Jewish soldiers from around the world. When it became possible, they undertook to extend help to Holocaust survivors, sending clothes and other gifts. Those who served in Europe helped in the Displaced Persons camps and the camp schools, and with the illegal immigration to Palestine.

It must be said that throughout their service, most of the women served two masters, the British monarch, and the Jewish authorities of the Yishuv. They smuggled arms and threatened to quit the armed forces when the British carried out massive searches and arrests in Palestine. The contacts the women established with Jewish communities were of great importance. In Egypt, the Jewish community ran clubs for Jewish soldiers from all over the world. The women’s organizations opened and maintained hostels for the enlisted women in Egypt, as well as children’s homes for the children of the enlisted mothers in Palestine.

**Impact of ATS and WAAF**

Altogether, the service in the army, though not always easy and often far away from home, was a valuable experience for most of the women. Many learned a trade, and most learned the English language. They experienced the “big world,” meeting women from all walks of life and people of other nationalities. On return home after four or five years of service, they were helped to readjust to civilian life; a considerable number benefited from the British Government’s program of assistance with interrupted studies.

The experience of service in the British army was ultimately of great importance in the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Women’s Corps (“CHEN,” Heb. lit. “charm,” acronym for Hel Nashim). The first five commanding officers of the Chen had all been officers in the ATS. Most of the ATS and WAAF officers were called up for active duty in the IDF as soon as the War of Independence broke out.

A large number of lasting friendships were formed during army service. An ongoing relationship with the young women of the Hen is maintained to the present day.

A lavishly illustrated book entitled We Volunteered for the British Army: Jewish Women from Palestine in World War II was published (in Hebrew) in 2005.

Bachi, Ruth. The Josephine File (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: 1994.

Cohen, Zivia. ed. We Volunteered for the British Army: Jewish Women from Palestine in World War II (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: 2005.

Habas, Bracha. Women of Valour: The Story of Palestine ATS (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: 1964.

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“Revenge & redemption” Extremely Rare Vintage Jewish Brigade Poster – Israel 1945

farkash — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:32:29 +0000

Revenge & redemption Vintage Jewish Brigade Poster Israel 1945

Recruitment for the Jewish Brigade – Poster Designed by Shamir Brothers
“LeNakam VeleGeula!”, poster encouraging enlistment to the Jewish Brigade. Linol: inst. Z. [Zvi] Bergman, Shamir & Associates printing press Ltd. [ca. 1945]. Design: Shamir Brothers.
Poster in color depicting a brigade soldier holding a rifle, with more soldiers in the background, attacking, and the Israeli flag.

THE JEWISH BRIGADE GROUP
Beginning in 1920, Great Britain ruled Palestine under a mandate created by the League of Nations. The British were to facilitate the establishment of a modern Jewish homeland. Due to Arab opposition to the proposed Jewish homeland in Palestine, the British initially refused to establish a separate fighting unit of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. However, wartime manpower requirements and the strategic need to defend the Middle East induced the British to permit the formation of 15 Palestinian Jewish battalions. These units were incorporated into the British army in September 1940.

Jewish units fought with the Allies in Greece in 1941; 100 Palestinian Jews were killed there and 1,700 captured by the Germans. On August 6, 1942, the British army formed a Palestine Regiment out of three Jewish and one Palestinian Arab battalion. The regiment fought in Egypt and in the battles of North Africa.

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. Under the command of Brigadier Ernest Benjamin, the Jewish Brigade fought against the Germans in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May 1945.

After the German surrender, the Jewish Brigade was stationed along the Italian border with Austria and Yugoslavia, and later in Belgium and the Netherlands. Some soldiers from the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Brigade members also became involved in organizing the flight of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and their clandestine entry into Palestine. Individual soldiers acquired arms for the Hagana, the major Jewish underground defense organization in Palestine.

Britain disbanded the Jewish Brigade Group in the summer of 1946. Some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine served with the British forces during World War II. More than 700 were killed during active duty

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Saving the Survivors Aid campaign Poster For Holocaust Survivors Designed by the Shamir Brothers 1945

NOAM BARNON — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:43:18 +0000

“Le-Hatzalat Ha-She’erit” [Saving the Survivors], illustrated poster. Levine-Epstein Ltd. Printing Press, Tel-Aviv, 1945.

Design: the Shamir Brothers. Hebrew.

Poster calling to donate to the aid campaign for She’erit Ha-Pletah. Illustration of a mother and child on the background of a map of Europe. Hebrew caption on the lower part: “Le-Hatzalat Ha-She’erit”.

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Jewish Brigade Vintage Poster “A Gift to Our Soldiers Rosh Hashanah” Palestine Ertz Israel 1945

farkash — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:22:43 +0000

Rare Israeli Poster. A gift to our soldiers on Rosh Hashanah 1945
The Committee for the Jewish Soldier Palestine Eretz Israel

Framed Poster ready to hang

כרזה לראש השנה 1945 הבריגדה היהודית שי לחיילנו הועד למען החייל היהודי

The British Mandate

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Two musical comedies Isreali theater Poster Jerusalem 1945

NOAM BARNON — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 12:38:25 +0000

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End of WWII – Original German Jews in Palestine Ertz Israel Newspaper Issue, 10.5.45.

farkash — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:28:39 +0000

End of WWII - Original German Jews in Palestine Ertz Israel Newspaper Issue, 10.5.45.
Yediot Hadashot (Jedioth Chadashoth). German and hebrew language. 24 pp. Very good condition
A special edition in honor of Victory Day over Nazi Germany.Portret of Winston Churchill on the front page

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Israeli Election Poster “NEW ALIYAH PARTY” Israel 1945 Palestine Ertz Israel

farkash — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:18:05 +0000

Extramely rare Israeli Election Poster “NEW ALIYAH PARTY” to Israel 1945 The new Aliya party founded by former Germany after the Holocaust. Their narrative was that new immigrants would need to reach an agreement with the British mandate without fighting.

The New Aliyah Party (Hebrew: עלייה חדשה‎‎, Aliyah Hadasha lit. New Immigration) was a political party in Mandate Palestine and Israel.The party was established in 1942 by immigrants from Austria and Germany who had arrived in Palestine during the Fifth Aliyah. In the fourth Assembly of Representatives formed in 1944, the party had 18 seats (from a total of 171), making it the third largest party after Mapai and the Left Front. The party’s magazine was named Amudim.In May 1948 party leader Pinchas Rosen became a member of the provisionial government. At the end of 1948 it merged with several other liberal parties, including the political arm of HaOved HaTzioni, to form the Progressive Party. Jewish Israel hebrew Jew

כרזה של מפלגת עליה חדשה נוסדה בגרמניה 1945

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