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British Army personnel of World War II

  • Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
  • Geoffrey EltonGottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg was born in Tübingen, Germany on the 17th of August 1921. His parents were Jewish scholars named Victor Ehrenberg and Eva…
  • Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
  • Raymond WilliamsRaymond Henry Williams was born on the 31st of August 1921 in Pandy, a small village just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney near Abergavenny.
  • Dick JamesReginald Leon Isaac Vapnick entered the world on the 12th of December 1920 within the East End of London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a…
  • A. J. AyerAlfred Jules Ayer entered the world on the 29th of October 1910 in St John's Wood, a district in north west London. His parents were wealthy continental…
  • Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.
  • Abba EbanAubrey Solomon Meir Eban entered the world on the 2nd of February 1915 in Cape Town, South Africa. His parents were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants seeking a…