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AIRFORCE “GADNA” VINTAGE ISRAELI POSTER (Hebrew Youth Battalions) Vintage Israeli Gadna Poster Sukkot conference 1956 Israel

NOAM BARNON — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:25:46 +0000

AIRFORCE “GADNA” VINTAGE ISRAELI POSTER (Hebrew Youth Battalions) Vintage Israeli Gadna Poster Sukkot conference 1956 Israel

Gadna (Hebrew: גדנ״ע) is an Israeli military program that prepares young people for military service in the Israel Defense Forces. It was established before the foundation of the State of Israel and was anchored in law in 1949. Today it is a one-week program of discipline and military training usually under commanders serving with the Nahal infantry brigade. Gadna hosts an estimated 19,000 Israeli youth annually, as well as numerous foreign youths.

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“Join The Navy Jewish brigade” Hebrew Youth, 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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VINTAGE ISRAELI POSTER GADNA “NAHAL” (Youth Battalions) Israel 1949

farkash — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:02:13 +0000

VINTAGE ISRAELI POSTER GADN”A (Hebrew Youth Battalions)

“The Gadna Calls: – Arise Ye, and Let Us Ascent!” – Poster Designed by Menachem Chalif – 1949

“The Gadna Calls: – Arise Ye, and Let Us Ascent!”, poster designed by Menachem Chalif (signed in the plate “M. Chalif”). Published by the governmental printer. [1949]. Hebrew.

Lithographic color poster, designed by Menachem Chalif, reading: “The Gadna Calls: – Arise Ye, and Let Us Ascent!”, over soldiers marching on bare hills, in a row extending to the horizon; two soldiers in the foreground are driving a flag, reading “Gedudei HaNo’ar” (Youth Battalions) and featuring the Gadna emblem, into the ground.

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The day of the Jewish soldier in the British military during WW2, 1941- Vintage Israeli Poster.

farkash — Thu, 06 May 2021 11:01:25 +0000

Original poster from 1941 celebrating the day of the Jewish soldier that is fighting the second World War as part of the Jewish Brigade in the British military. This is one of a kind, extremely rare.

כרזה הבריגדה היהודית מלחמת העולם השניה

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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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Jewish Brigade Vintage Israeli Poster WW2 1942, JEWISH AGENCY POSTER ENCOURAGING ENLISTING IN THE BRITISH ARMY

farkash — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:50:25 +0000

Extremely rare poster 1942 WW2

JEWISH AGENCY POSTER ENCOURAGING ENLISTING IN THE BRITISH ARMY

Join the Jewish Brigade!
Poster on behalf of the recruitment bureaus of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Printing of a. Levin Epstein & Sons Ltd. 1939, You can count on one hand the amount of these posters that are left!
Height 62 cm, width 46 cm.
The Israeli veterans
Volunteers of the Yishuv for the British Army during World War II 1939 – 1945
World War II broke out in September 1939 with the German army invading Poland.
The Jewish community in Palestine (Israel) then numbered about half a million people. Many of the countrymen felt obliged to join the war against Hitler and his army. Arabs hardly enlisted, while from the Jewish community about 40,000 men and women volunteered for all branches of the British army.
The issue of the recruitment of compatriots to the British army provoked controversy in a settlement that was in serious conflict with the British government and its “White Paper” policy, a document that restricted immigration to the country and the purchase of land in it. This and more. An ostrich that the German army, under the command of General Rommel, stood at the gates of Egypt, in the country there were those who preferred to provide manpower to protect the settlement itself.
Ben-Gurion decided by saying that we must help the English as if there were no “White Paper” and fight the “White Paper” as if there were no war.
As mentioned, close to 40,000 members of the settlement volunteered for all branches of the British army and served in Israel, the Middle East, the Western Desert and Africa. Eventually, they arrived in Europe and were the first to meet the She’erit HaPleita, give them significant help and help bring them to Israel. Few served in the Far East when the war moved there, about 800 people fell dead in the war.
It is worth noting that in this war against Hitler’s army were for the first time all the Jewish soldiers on one side of the barricade, one and a half million Jews served in the Allied armies in World War II.
The volunteers from Palestine tried to maintain the Jewish and Zionist character of their units, some in British units, some in independent units. The highlight was the establishment of the Jewish Brigade in 1944.
The experience gained in the British army contributed significantly to the establishment of the IDF.
David Ben Gurion:
“We must help the British as if there is no ‘White Paper’ and fight the ‘White Paper’ as if there is no war.”
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Volunteering of the Jewish community in Eretz Israel for the British army during World War II 1945 – 1939
World War II broke out in September 1939 with the German army invading Poland.
The Jewish community in Palestine (Israel) then numbered about half a million people. Many of the countrymen felt obliged to join the war against Hitler and his army. Arabs hardly enlisted, while from the Jewish community about 40,000 men and women volunteered for all branches of the British army.
The issue of the recruitment of compatriots to the British army provoked controversy in a settlement that was in serious conflict with the British government and its “White Paper” policy, a document that restricted immigration to the country and the purchase of land in it. This and more. An ostrich that the German army, under the command of General Rommel, stood at the gates of Egypt, in the country there were those who preferred to provide manpower to protect the settlement itself.
Ben-Gurion decided by saying that we must help the English as if there were no “White Paper” and fight the “White Paper” as if there were no war.
As mentioned, close to 40,000 members of the settlement volunteered for all branches of the British army and served in Israel, the Middle East, the Western Desert and Africa. To the water, arrived in Europe and were the first to meet the refugees, provided them with significant assistance and helped bring them to Israel. Few served in the Far East when the war moved there, about 800 people fell dead in the war.
It is worth noting that in this war against Hitler’s army were for the first time all the Jewish soldiers on one side of the barricade, one and a half million Jews served in the Allied armies in World War II.
The volunteers from Palestine tried to maintain the Jewish and Zionist character of their units, some in British units, some in independent units. The highlight was the establishment of the Jewish Brigade in 1944.
The experience gained in the British army contributed significantly to the establishment of the IDF.

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Extremely Rare Vintage Israeli Handmade Poster Of The Jewish Brigade Soldier 1942

farkash — Fri, 08 May 2020 08:02:03 +0000

Extremely Rare! A handmade poster of the Jewish Brigade soldier, “Do you worry about tomorrow? Sign up for the soldiers’ coffers,” to encourage soldiers to set aside money from their salary for a savings fund. The poster, painted by a Jewish soldier named Pablo (and even signed by him), was apparently hung at the Brigade headquarters in Italy in 1945. It was painted in watercolor on the other side of a 1942 Palestine military map and even repainted by the artist. The poster has undergone a professional restoration repair Unique rare item

Framed

The British Mandate

נדיר ביותר! כרזה בעבודת יד של חייל הבריגדה היהודית, “הדאגת למחר? הרשם לקופת החיילים”, במטרה לעודד חיילים להפריש כספים ממשכורתם לטובת קופת חסכון. הכרזה, שצוירה בידי חייל יהודי בשם פבלו (ואף חתומה על ידו), נתלתה ככל הנראה במטה הבריגדה באיטליה ב-1945. היא צוירה בצבעי מים בצידה השני של מפה צבאית של פלשתינה מ-1942 ואף היא נצבעה מחדש בידי האמן. הכרזה עברה תיקון רסטורציה מקצועי . פריט נדיר ויחיד במינו

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