This Ridley Road plaque marks a key site where the mainly Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women anti-Fascist organization The 43 Group Confronted the British neo-fascist movement in 1946-50 and early 1960s to rid Britain of anti-Semitism and all . . . — — Map (db m237802) HM
This plaque commemorates the 40th anniversary of the murder by terrorists of 11 Israeli athletes at the 20th Olympiad in Munich in September 1972. They came to pay homage to the Games but paid with their lives. Never Again.
David Berger · . . . — — Map (db m287871) HM
At 9 Brooke Rd., lived Air Raid Warden
BARNETT LEWIS
(GM) George Medal
Jewish War Hero
September 23, 1940, at extreme personal risk,
he saved many civilians during the Blitz.
Be strong and of good courage. (Joshua . . . — — Map (db m201654) HM WM
In proud memory of Jewish WW1 Officer Capt. John Danny, RA
(Born Rezso Engel, in Hungary 1873, died in Hackney 1928)
who lived in Hackney and founded in this building, the 1914
National Association of the Old Comtemptibles war veterans . . . — — Map (db m264457) HM WM
British Secret Agent for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), born and brought up in Hackney. Deployed to Corsica and France on two missions, he was betrayed then murdered by the Nazis at the Gross Rosen death camp in 1944.
He has no known . . . — — Map (db m231217) HM WM
Remember in Your Prayers and in Your Lives, the Men, Women and Children of This Congregation and Parish Who Died in the Wars.
1914 — 1918
On Active Service
George Amor · Arthur Arundel · George Appleby · Albert Beer · William . . . — — Map (db m118722) WM
On the site of this College, formerly Shoreditch and Hoxton Schools, once
stood the Hoxton Jewish cemetery, burial ground of the old Hambro Synagogue
in the City, from 1707 till 1960. The remains were transferred to the West Ham
Jewish . . . — — Map (db m229343) HM
Remembering the British Jewish men and women who went to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Some 10,000 Jews from over 50 nations served in the International Brigades, comprising 25% of the total strength. Though Jews were a . . . — — Map (db m308024) HM WM
Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
Linale House
The First Block of Flats to be
Erected On
The Wenlock Barn Estate
Was Opened By
His Worship The Mayor Of Shoreditch
(Alderman R.G. Linale J.P.)
On the 10th September 1949
Chairman of . . . — — Map (db m118721) HM
Jewish Prosecutor - Belsen War Crimes Trials
Famous actor and soldier (1905-78)
was born in this house
שמחה לצדיק עשות משפט
When . . . — — Map (db m229475) HM
The Hackney Mortuary played an important role in a British military operation during the Second World War (1939-1945), which helped save the lives of thousands of soldiers.
In April 1943 Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu CBE KC RNVR, a British . . . — — Map (db m185958) HM
In proud memory of Jewish War hero
Sgt. Issy Smith, VC, Cr. de Gu.
(Ishroulch Schmeilowitz)
Manchester regiment, awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1 for outstanding courage. He lived in Navarino Mansions Hackney in the 1920s
Be . . . — — Map (db m303822) HM
Sir Arnold Wesker
famed Jewish playwrite and author,
lived many years in Hackney,
and attended
Northwold Primary School
1940-1943 — — Map (db m201679) HM
