Sydney Cohen - The famous RAF pilot and the 'King of Lampedusa' who took the surrender of the entire Italian garrison on that island in 1943 and visited the Red House in Brackley during the war
Crewe House 44 Banbury Road was the family house of the Froombergs during the war
Crewe House Name Plate, Banbury Road
The Crown Hotel - A room at the hotel was used as a synagogue during High Holydays during the war
18 High Street Brackley - Home to evacuated Jewish Children during the war (the Shaws)
Winchester House School - Home to some 60 Jewish boys between 1920 - 1950
The Red House Home of the Extended Tibber Family During the War and Visited by Sydney Cohen
Redesdale from the Air in the 1970s the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus
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Photo Gallery - Brackley
Brackley is a very small market town, in rural Northamptonshire, on the main road between Northampton and Oxford. Until after the War, the town was little larger than a large village, with a market place and 2 - 3,000 residents. However, the town has an unexpected and little known Jewish heritage, largely dating from just after World War I, to the end of World War II. It illustrates the unexpected links that Jewish people could often have in deeply rural areas and it is also a particularly good example of the ranges of Jewish war-time experiences as refugees and evacuees in the countryside.
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