Jewish POWs

Handforth Concentration Prison imprisoned Germans living in Britain, descendants of German immigrants, and Jewish men either from Germany, or simply having a German last name.

Captain John Julius Jersey de Knoop

John Julius Jersey de Knoop was born on 6th March 1876 in Rusholme, Greater Manchester.

Jewish Soldiers in the Cheshire Regiment

By the early 20th century the county of Cheshire had accumulated a small yet prosperous Jewish community.

Russian Jewish Refugees and Jewish Soldiers in the Cheshire Regiment

Prior to the outbreak of World War One, there were approximately 300,000 Jews living within Britain.