Image: Frying Pan Alley, London. CA Mathew: Photographs of Spitalfields a Century Ago. READ MORE
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Image: Manchester Jews School 1890, Headmistress Miss Raphael in the background © Bill Williams. READ MORE
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Image: J.Pollick & Sons. © Manchester Jewish Museum.
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Image: A Jewish tailoring workshop circa 1910, Manchester
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Image: The Jewish World 12/01/1916 and Jewish Welfare Board World War I poster, 1918. READ MORE
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The offices of the Jewish Chronicle, London, August 1914.
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1265 images from the Jewish Military Museum/AJEX Collections
Available to view here for the first-time, an extensive collection of photographs, letters, documents, objects and books from the Jewish Military Museum/AJEX Collections, kindly provided by the Jewish Museum London. These remarkable images illustrate the experiences of individual British Jewish men and women who served in the First World War.
Personal Records
Harry Pitt
-01/07/1916
Benjamin Cohen
1893
-26/10/1917
Henry George Raphael
1894
-31/07/1917
Jack Golding
1899
-05/04/1918
Lionel Hurwitz
1899
-15/10/1918
Build a Personal Record
We are aiming to create a permanent record of the lives of London’s Jewish men and women and their families, both in the military and on the Home Front, during 1914-1919, ensuring that their stories are not lost for future generations. And we need your help.
Regional areas to explore
As our archive expands we are creating spaces for local areas of interest across the UK.
On these pages you’ll find the regions we are working in.
The proportion of the Jewish population to other residents of East London in 1899
- 95-100%
- 75-95%
- 50-75%
- 25-50%
- 5-25%
- < 5%
Find Someone
Use our digitised resources below to find a person living in First World War London.
The British Jewry Book of Honour
The British Jewry Book of Honour is a record of Jews who were killed in action and awarded military honours in the First World War, as well as the nominal rolls of Jews who served, listed by service and by regiment.
The Jewish Chronicle Archives
The Jewish Chronicle has very generously made their 1914 - 1920 Archives available to We Were There Too participants, free of the usual fee charged for using the Archive. This will enable you to read about the First World War years from a distinctly Jewish perspective and to research your family.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records details of Commonwealth war dead (from the First and Second World Wars) so that graves or names on memorials can be located.
Timeline
1914
1921
‘The sinking of the Lusitania has transformed the face of the war. Up till recently it was a fight...
Jewish Chronicle
14th May 1915
Featured History Windows
Jewish Nurses, VADs and Military Hospitals.
An assessment at the start of war calculated that there were approximately 50,000 beds available. By the end of 1914 there some 73,000 injured had already been brought home.
Ruhleben internment camp
In autumn 1914 following the outbreak of war citizens from the different Allied countries that were living, travelling or working in Germany were interned.
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