British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
Creator(s)
- Great Britain (Issuer)
- Shmuel Givol Gotthold (Subject)
Archival History
The ribbon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Yoel Givol and Michal Lilli Kahani, the grandchildren of Hildegard and Moritz Henschel.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yoel Givol and Michal Lilli Kahani, in memory of their grandparents, Hildegard and Moritz Henschel
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Shmuel Givol Gotthold. Gotthold was a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, 2nd Jewish Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the immediate postwar period he was stationed in the British Zone in Germany where he helped trace missing persons and aided refugees desperate to know whether their family members had survived. The Brigade was established by the British in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer 1946
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular grosgrain ribbon with frayed ends and 7 vertical stripes: green, narrow black, green, wide orange, green, narrow black, green.
Corporate Bodies
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade
Subjects
- Soldiers--Palestine.
- Jewish soldiers--Great Britain.
- Jewish soldiers--Palestine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Soldiers--Great Britain.
Genre
- Awards
- Object