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Commemorative plaque honouring Lt Commander Martin Solomon
September 18, 2024, 12:21 pm
AJEX unveils plaque to honour Dunkirk hero Martin Solomon
Lt Cdr Solomon commanded Southend fleet of boats during rescue of 330,000 Allied troops in 1940
By Michelle Rosenberg
April 30, 2024, 3:43 pm
Second World War hero receives new headstone with Star of David after 80 years
Until last week, Jewish military veteran Harold Devon had been buried under a cross in Hanover War Cemetery
By Candice Krieger
Ridley-Road-Plaque-Honouring-The-43-Group-Anti-Fascist-Triumph. Pic: AJEX
December 20, 2023, 12:08 pm
Ridley Road plaque honours The 43 Group’s anti-Fascist triumph
A lasting testament to the first Jewish group to physically fight fascists in Britain
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Courtesy of Martin Sugarman
August 21, 2023, 3:21 pm
Synagogue unveils plaque to honour soldier who defused a German parachute mine
Former Oxford and St George Jewish Youth Club in Totteridge salutes Commander Harold Newgass, awarded the George Cross in 1941 for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty"
By Michelle Rosenberg
Plaque honouring the '43. Credit: Martin Sugarman.
February 14, 2023, 12:06 pm
Former secret London HQ of Jewish anti-fascist group commemorated
Jewish ex-servicemen and women formed the vigilante 43 Group in 1946; members including Vidal Sassoon vowed to fight post-war antisemitism
By Michelle Rosenberg
Sir Arnold Wesker
December 24, 2021, 11:33 am
Plaque honouring dramatist Sir Arnold Wesker unveiled at his former school
Arts campaigner who wrote more than 50 plays, as well as books and poems, WAS celebrated at his old primary in Hackney
Admiral Sir Max Horton (left) while serving in the Baltic
July 1, 2021, 3:33 pm
Jewish war hero’s heritage is finally set in stone
A little-known Welsh Jewish admiral who played a huge part in ­helping win the Second World War has had his roots acknowledged for the first time beside his statue
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Graffiti in Hackney Wick
March 1, 2021, 3:53 pm
Police investigating ‘UK Zionist police state’ graffiti daubed on building
The graffiti appeared by Queen's Yard in Hackney Wick, and was reported by a concerned Jewish local resident
By Jewish News Reporter
August 3, 2020, 4:16 pm
Star of David added to mural for pilot killed in Canvey Island war disaster
Recognition that airman Fred Kaufman was Jewish added to a memorial honouring victims of the 1944 air crash, following approach by one of the community's military historians
By Jewish News Reporter
An iconic Second World War Spitfire
February 21, 2020, 2:16 pm
Telling the stories of Jews who fought in Bomber Command
We talk to an archivist who quit her job to uncover tales of Jewish airmen who risked death to fight the Nazis
The fly pass before the Service of Remembrance at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Bayeux.
August 1, 2019, 2:35 pm
Sister of ex-soldier appeals for Star of David on relative’s war grave
Sylvia Gold writes to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in an attempt to have her late brother Jacob Sorsky's grave marked with a Jewish symbol
By Jewish News Reporter
Ambassador removing Israeli flag from pillar of names of the 23 Palmach Jews who died on an operation off the Haifa/Lebanon coast in May 1941. Credit: David Rose
May 31, 2017, 4:46 pm
Palmach heroes remembered with Memorial to the Missing ceremony
Mark Regev unveils names of 23 Palmach members, who were killed in a joint operation between Jews from Mandatory Palestine and Britain
By Jenni Frazer
September 13, 2016, 4:31 pm
Plaque for Jewish commandos has mystery new name
A tribute to 23 World War Two heroes and a British spy had a new addition which left Jewish researchers perplexed
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