Record

Ref NoJA/2/A/3
TitleCorrespondence about the Jewish War Memorial in Birmingham
LevelFile
Date1945 - 1948
DescriptionFile of correspondence belonging to Stanley Solomons [Reverend, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation] and Ivan Shortt [President, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation], collecting information about men from Birmingham's Jewish community killed in action during the Second World War. It includes letters from relatives and friends of casulties, giving information about them (such as full name, rank, and date of death), or asking for changes to the information on the Memorial; an issue of the Birmingham Jewish Recorder, June 1946, which includes a letter from Stanley Solomons, asking for casulties' names; postcard forms sent by the Congregation to be filled in by relatives and friends of members of the Congregation who served or were killed in the War, 1945; lists of names inscribed on the Memorial, undated; correspondence between Stanley Solomons and Rabbi Israel Brodie [Senior Chaplain to HM Forces] re compiling a list of Jewish casulties from records held at Woburn House, 1946.
Extent1
FormatFile
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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