Interesting comprehensive material on the Prisoners of War/Ransomed Prisoners Organization of the Brigade soldiers ...

Interesting comprehensive material on the Prisoners of War/Ransomed Prisoners Organization of the Brigade soldiers in Europe during World War II, includes letters, newspaper clippings, documents, articles and further material concerning the treatment of the ransomed prisoners, including recognition and rights. The material covers a time period starting from the 1960 and until the mid-1980s, and contains 4 full and informative folders. * On 29 April, 1941, 1,383 Jewish and 7,600 non-Jewish soldiers who served in the British Army during World War II were captivated by the Germans in the city of Kalamata in southern Greece. The prisoners had arrived in Greece only two months earlier in the framework of a British Army deployment intended to assist the Greek in protecting their country from Italian invasion during the Greco-Italian War. During the war, the German Army also invaded Greece, conquered it and took the surrendered soldiers of the Allied Forces captive. Among them were Jewish soldiers. Several additional soldiers were captivated by the Germans in the Libyan Desert after having failed to complete commando operations in Greece and Crete. The German captivators treated the Jewish prisoners according the International Red Cross Organization laws. The Red Cross and the British Government were able to successfully intervene and prevent discrimination against the Jewish prisoners. Nonetheless, some British soldiers and officers discriminated against their fellow Jewish soldiers from the Land of Israel. The Jewish soldiers united in the prisoner camps, showed solidarity toward one another and even managed to maintain the Jewish-Israeli way of life: they celebrated all the Jewish holidays.