us-005578-irn34231-irn35768
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archival history: The Jewish Brigade patch was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Fanny Englard, the widow of Leo Englard.
biographical history: Fanny Dominitz was born September 9, 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jakob Dominitz, a traveling businessman, born on November 26, 1899, and Scheindel Ungar Dominitz, born April 18, 1897, both in Tarnow, Poland. She had four brothers, all born in Cologne: Leo Markus on November 6, 1926, a second brother in 1928, Isidor Izi on July 29, 1929, and a fourth, birth date unknown. She also had sisters, one by the name of Tzipora. Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The government sanctioned anti-Jewish boycotts and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the total separation of Aryans and non-Aryans. Fanny’s parents decided in 1936 that her father should leave Cologne for Katowice, Poland, because Jewish men were at a high risk of arrest and deportation. By January 1, 1938, German Jews were prohibited from operating businesses and trades, and from offering goods and services. On October 28, 1938, the Germans expelled nearly 20,000 Polish Jews from Germany in the Polenaktion, including Fanny’s father, mother, brothers, sisters and grandma; all were sent to the Bentschen internment camp. In 1940, Fanny left Cologne and joined the Youth Hachschara in Rissen, Schleswig-Holstein, near Altona, to gain agricultural skills and obtain a visa to emigrate to Palestine. She entered a Jewish girl’s orphanage in Hamburg and trained as a housekeeper from 1940 to November 1941, when she received orders to report to the Gestapo for deportation to a labor camp in Minsk as part of the 4th Hamburg-Altona transport. On December 4, the deportees met at the Talmud Tora School and learned that Rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach, who visited with Fanny at the Hachschara, was to head this transport. On December 6, the group was loaded into police vans for transport to the Hannoversche goods depot and informed that they were going to the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The 3-4 day trip…
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Narrow, slightly arched, rectangular, olive green/khaki cloth shoulder patch with Hebrew and English text embroidered in gold thread on the front.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: 1944 September-1946 July
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: heb
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn35768
is or was included in: us-005578-irn34231
record resource extent: overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Shoulder title patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group 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 of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each other in Germany and had corresponded throughout the war.
title: Jewish Brigade Group embroidered shoulder title patch worn by a Brigade soldier