numerous memoires, books and films. In 1998, filmmakers Chuck Olin (Director) and Matthew Palm (Co-Producer) released their award-winning documentary, In Our Own Hands. The film aired on PBS in the United States and played in numerous film festivals around the world. In popular culture In Leon Uris novel Exodus, and the subsequent film, protagonist Ari Ben Canaan of the Haganah succeeds in organising the movement of refugees to Palestine, through his experience of action and use of procedures gained during the war as an officer of the Jewish Brigade. Partial list of notable veterans of the Jewish Brigade British Jews Ernest Benjamin Bernard M. Casper Edmund Leopold de Rothschild Palestinian Jews Yehuda Amichai Meir Argov Ted Arison Hanoch Bartov Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Haim Ben-Asher Zvi Brenner Reuven Dafni Yehiel Duvdevani Israel Carmi Mordechai Gichon Amir Gilboa Elazar Granot Dov Gruner Hans Jonas Shraga Har-Gil Haim Laskov Mordechai Maklef Shimon Mazeh Nissan Nativ Yitzhak Orpaz David Rubinger Gideon Schocken Shlomo Shamir Chaim Sheba Mordechai Surkis Israel Tal Adin Talbar Moshe Tavor Yehoshafat Harkabi Aharon Hoter-Yishai Yigal Hurvitz Danny Matt Gideon Ben-Yisrael Meir Zorea Amram Zur Shalom Zysman See also Fighters against Nazis Medal Jewish Legion Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine Special Interrogation Group (SIG) The Sixth Battalion'' – a documentary about Jewish soldiers forced to fight for the Nazis in the Slovak Republic during the Second World War. Tilhas Tizig Gesheften, a paramilitary sister effort undertaken by many members of the brigade Volunteer Ribbon References Sources Contains a foreword by E F Benjamin former commander of the Jewish Brigade. Casper was Senior Chaplain to the Brigade. Shamir was the Jewish Brigade Commander on behalf of the Haganah and the Jewish Institutions in Palestine. External links Combat and Resistance: Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies on the Yad Vashem website Jewish Brigade Group (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) The Jewish Brigade (Israeli MFA) Chaim Weizmann on the Jewish Brigade, 1944 Shapell Manuscript Foundation Jewish Brigade Group (JVL) Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive (University of Illinois Library) (Digital video interviews from members of the Jewish Brigade) Military units and formations established in 1944 Military units and formations disestablished in 1946 Brigades of the British Army in World War II History of Mandatory Palestine Jewish resistance during the Holocaust Jewish military units and formations Military units and formations of Mandatory Palestine in World War II 1944 establishments in Mandatory Palestine 1946 disestablishments in Mandatory