Aron Glass papers

Documents detailing the service of Aron Glass in the Palestine Police and the Jewish Brigade, from 1941-1946, including soldier's pay book, discharge papers, photographs, a naturalization certificate granting him citizenship in Palestine (1940), and a later Israeli passport (1956). Aron Glass (1916-2006) was a native of Cologne, Germany, who after immigration to Palestine, served in the Palestine Police Force (1941-1943) and the Jewish Brigade of the British Army (1944-1946), serving in the Royal Engineers as a sapper. During this time, he saw action in Italy, and subsequently in Belgium, where he met and participated in the liberation of his future wife, Lilly Glass, who had been in hiding during the German occupation of that country.