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British Army Recruitment

 

  גיוס לצבא הבריטי סימול: PHG1072913
 
The Zionist Archives holds the general correspondence files of the Recruiting and Demobilization  Offices of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa (S37). These files, dating from 1940-1947, contain correspondence encompassing all the topics related to the enlistment of soldiers as well as many lists of recruits.
 
The files are arranged according to the recruitment offices in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva, Haifa, Ramat Gan, Rishon Lezion, B'nei Brak, Hadera, and Netanya. It is important a person researching his/her family roots know where the person used to reside. Most of the files are in Hebrew.
 
Card catalogs of the recruitment offices 
Within the framework of the project of scanning the genealogic databases of the Zionist Archives, a card catalog containing more than 25,000 records of the recruitmentoffices of the Jewish Agency was scanned.
 
 
לשכת גיוס הצבא הבריטי סימול: PHG\1072906 גיוס סטודנטים מהאוניברסיטה העברית ומקדמיית המשפט הממשלתית.1941 סימול: S25\8957-5 כרוז הקורא לישוב היהודי בפלשתינה להתגייס לצבא הבריטי במלחמתו סימול: KRA1336
  
 
Access restrictions
The card catalog is accessible to the public only by application to the CZA Family Research Section. Personal files are not available for research by the general public for privacy reasons. 
 
The list of files of the archives of the Recruitment Offices of the Jewish Agency is accessible on this website.
 
Relatives wishing to browse a personal file can approach the Family Research Section, as outlined in the Information page of the Family Research section.
 
Personal files of conscripts and recruits (S25)
The Political Department of the Jewish Agency (S25) corresponded with conscripts and recruits in the 1940s. These files, arranged alphabetically, are accessible to the public.
 
Personal files are not available for research by the general public for privacy reasons.
 
Relatives wishing to browse a personal file can approach the Family Research Section, as outlined in the Information page of the Section for Family Research.