With the disbandment of the Jewish Brigade in the summer of 1946, the following article appeared in The Jewish Chronicle on June 28 of that year:
JEWISH BRIGADE’S FAREWELL
Ceremonies in Brussels
Jews from all over Belgium assembled in Brussels last Sunday (reports Jewish World News) to bid farewell to the Jewish Brigade, who were to leave Belgium this week. At the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the 9th Company of the Jewish Brigade formed a guard of honour, while their C.O., Brigadier Benjamin, placed a wreath there. Then the members of the Brigade marched to the “Pier Nationale,” the spot where the Nazis executed members of the Jewish and Belgian Resistance Movements.
In the afternoon, the Brussels Jewish Community gave a farewell tea to the Brigade, at which Brussels Jewry’s deep gratitude was expressed to the Brigade for all it had done for the Jewish survivors in the early days following the liberation of Brussels and ever since. The well-known Jewish artists Molly Picon and Jacob Kalisch, from New York, who are now touring Europe, were among those who took part in a programme of entertainment.
What was said to be the most imposing Jewish mass meeting ever held in Brussels, with an attendance of over three thousand, took place in the evening. Representatives of the Belgian Government, including the Minister of Defence, were among those present. The Chaplain of the Jewish Brigade, the Rev. M. Jaffe, C.F., recited the “El Mole Rachamim,” in memory of the members of the Brigade who had fallen in battle, and of the Jews who had perished in the ghettoes.
Brigadier Benjamin concluded the meeting with an address in which he praised the achievements of the Jewish Brigade during the battles in various theatres of war, and the moral uplift they had brought to the distressed Jewish remnants in the liberated countries.