Jewish Brigade, the history of the partisan formation that fought in Italy during the Resistance

Jewish partisans have full citizenship in Italian resistance. There Jewish Brigade is a corps of young Jewish volunteers from Palestine still under the British mandate, commissioned in September 1944 into the Commonwealth Army, who participated in the last stages of the Second World War in northern Italy. He was born in September 1944 and fought on the Gothic Line in Romagna together with the Anglo-American allies and the Italian partisans. It was disbanded in 1946.

Because it is a fundamental piece of the events of the Second World War? The battle of the Jewish Brigade begins when the frightening proportions of the Shoah emerge, the annihilation of millions of Jews. Some of these soldiers also organized themselves into squads of vigilantes who tracked down and killed Nazi officers who had gone underground.

Curiosity: he was Jewish the youngest partisan in Italy, Franco Cesana, who died at just 13 years old, on 14 September 1944, on the Modena Apennines when it operated as a relay with the Scarabello formation of the Garibaldi division.