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探花直播Channel Islands' victims and survivors of Nazi persecution

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A decade of research reveals the harrowing experiences of Channel Islanders persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War.聽

Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands

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On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands, opens today at the Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide, London, and seeks to highlight the stories often omitted from the British narrative of 鈥榮tanding alone鈥� against Nazism and celebrations of the British victory over the Germans.

探花直播exhibition draws upon the Library鈥檚 wealth of archival material, recently-released files from the National Archives, personal items belonging to the victims themselves and current research from Dr Carr.

鈥淔or anyone who wants to come and learn about the last untold story of the German occupation of the Channel Islands, this is the exhibition to visit,鈥� said Carr, a senior lecturer in archaeology at St Catherine鈥檚 College and the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE).

鈥� 探花直播Islands were the only part of British territory to be occupied and the victims of Nazism are almost entirely overlooked by those who prefer (incorrectly) to see the islands as a hotbed of collaboration. There are so many heart-breaking stories. We think of the Holocaust or Nazi persecution as something that happened only on the continent 鈥� but it happened on British soil. British citizens experienced the most horrific concentration camps, and Jews were deported from British territory to Auschwitz.鈥�

From the experiences of a young Jewish woman living quietly on a farm in Guernsey and later deported to Auschwitz and murdered, to those of a Spanish forced labourer in Alderney, and the story of a man from Guernsey whose death in a German prison camp remained unknown to his family for over 70 years, the exhibition highlights the lives of the persecuted, and the post-war struggle to obtain recognition of their suffering.

Other exhibits going on display in London include a Christmas card made by a little girl and given to Frank Tuck from Guernsey as he suffered in Neuoffingen hard labour camp and a key of a聽prison cell from the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, belonging to Henry Marquand, deported for his role in sheltering two British commandos to Guernsey.

鈥� 探花直播search for these unknown stories continues,鈥� added Carr. 鈥� 探花直播exhibition coincides with the launching of a new website聽https://www.frankfallaarchive.org/聽which is dedicated to finding and reconstructing the full journey of all deported Channel Islanders through various Nazi prisons and concentration camps. Theirs is the last untold story of the German occupation of the Channel Islands.鈥�

Frank Falla, the Guernseyman after whom the archive is named, was a former prisoner and survivor of Frankfurt am Main-Preungesheim and Naumburg (Saale) prisons. In the mid-1960s, Frank took it upon himself to help his fellow former political prisoners in the Channel Islands get compensation for their suffering in Nazi prisons and camps.

In 2010, Frank鈥檚 daughter gave Gilly her father鈥檚 extensive archives 鈥� the most important resistance archives to ever come out of the Channel Islands 鈥� and the project was born. Falla鈥檚 briefcase, used to collect the testimony of those persecuted by the Nazis is also on display in London from today.

鈥淚鈥檝e been writing the background stories for the website of islanders deported to Nazi prison, concentration and labour camps,鈥� added Carr. 鈥淪o far I鈥檝e written 75 out of 200 plus. Every story is a labour of love. I see each as a form of 鈥榬escue鈥�. While I can never go back and rescue any of these people from their camps and prisons, I can rescue their story and experiences for their families and for the Channel Islands.鈥�

Carr says the experience of researching these stories brings about a strangely bonding experience with her subject matter as she becomes a co-witness to the horrors they faced 鈥� and responsible for making their stories more widely known.

鈥淓ach person whose story I trace becomes a kind of 鈥榝riend鈥� in a strange way. You get to know them so well and I have been lucky enough to meet many families of those deported. I feel I can be a link between the living and the dead and tell the living what the dead were never able to.

聽鈥淚鈥檓 interested in hearing from anyone in the Channel Islands or further afield who had a family member sent to a Nazi prison or concentration camp from the Channel Islands to help supplement the journeys we have reconstructed from archival materials. Please contact me via the website with photos, documents and stories. I'd love to hear from you.鈥�

On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands until 9 February 2018, has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

探花直播untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War will be revealed from today at a new exhibition co-curated by Cambridge鈥檚 Dr Gilly Carr.

Each person whose story I trace becomes a kind of 鈥榝riend鈥� in a strange way. You get to know them so well.

GIlly Carr

Marianne Grunfeld was born in Poland to a German-Jewish family before taking a farm job in Guernsey in 1939. She was deported in 1942 and was murdered in Auschwitz

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探花直播art of survival

bjb42 — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:41:02 +0000

Of the 2,200 Channel Islanders who were deported by the Nazis during World War II, most spent the war with little news of Allied progress, and uncertain about when it was all going to end.

It was just one of several psychological burdens they had to endure. Crammed into internment camps hundreds of miles from home, these British citizens spent years in relative isolation, feeling frustrated, anxious and often simply bored.

探花直播best way to stop themselves from becoming depressed was to find something else to do, and they found a solution in recycling the parcels that were periodically delivered to the camps by the Red Cross. Many prisoners became accomplished craftsmen, transforming parts of these parcels, or their contents, into toys, crockery, everyday objects to help their survival, and games. When they were liberated at the war鈥檚 end, these items returned with them to the islands. Some found their way into archives and museums; others remained in private homes.

Since 2006, Dr Gilly Carr, an archaeologist at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, has been studying this material record. Now she has both co-edited a book on the subject, called Creativity Behind Barbed Wire, and curated an exhibition, which has opened at Jersey Museum and will be open to the public until the end of 2012. This year marks the 70^th anniversary of the first wave of deportations of Channel Islanders to internment camps in Germany.

Carr believes that, just like the 鈥渢rench art鈥� created by soldiers who fought at the front during World War I, these objects can open a window on to the eyewitness experience of aspects of World War II.

鈥淔or these internees, the future stretched ahead, seemingly without end,鈥� she said. 鈥淢any of them assumed or hoped that the Allies would win the war, but there was no certainty when or if this would happen. Time rapidly began to weigh heavily on their minds. We can learn a lot about the experience from letters and diaries, but sometimes the most poignant tales are told by the artwork and handicrafts they made. They are a testament to the importance of creativity in ensuring the survival of internment.鈥�

探花直播occupation of the Channel Islands remains a relatively unacknowledged chapter in Britain鈥檚 wartime history, although Carr鈥檚 research - which extends far beyond the study of prisoners alone - has done much to reawaken interest in the subject.

Oddly, the deportations themselves, which began nearly 70 years ago, in September 1942, had their causal origins in the Middle East, where the British had invaded Iran and subsequently deported German citizens working there. An outraged Hitler decided to conduct a similar policy in the Channel Islands as an act of retaliation.

探花直播Germans started by targeting men between the ages of 16 and 70 who were not born in the Islands, and their dependents, regardless of their place of birth. Those from Jersey went to Wurzach, in southern Germany, and those from Guernsey went to the nearby town of Biberach after several weeks in a transit camp at Dorsten. Many unattached men went to a camp at Laufen and, later on, single women were transferred to Liebenau camp. A number of islanders were sent to other camps.

A second wave followed in 1943, and included people who had avoided the first round of deportations, as well as British Jews, former servicemen, and so-called 鈥渦ndesirables鈥�, who had committed acts of resistance. A number of people from Sark were also deported in retaliation for a commando raid which had occurred on the island the previous autumn, and in which several Germans were killed in a brief firefight around the local Dixcart Hotel.

These prisoners were sent to various camps in south Germany via a transit camp at Compi猫gne, just outside Paris. There they encountered French Jews, who were en route to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and witnessed acts of cruelty by German guards which implied the far worse fate that awaited their Jewish fellow-deportees.

探花直播experiences of the Channel Island prisoners themselves, were, however, far from easy and many struggled with their psychological impact. Preston John Doughty, a Jersey deportee, recorded in his diary on the day that he arrived at Wurzach, that: 鈥渢he state of the place and our rooms were like pigsties and so, everywhere we went, tears began to flow... Scrubbing of floors, doors, tables, chairs and, in fact, the whole place was undertaken to make it a fit place to live in. My room was like a large barn and in it they put 46 men to eat and sleep.鈥�

探花直播Red Cross parcels the Channel Islanders received from December 1942 onwards fast became a lifeline not only because of the food they contained, but also because they gave their overactive and anxious minds something to focus on.

探花直播creations that they produced were often small works of art. Nothing was wasted: Parcel string was made into clothing or bags, cardboard was reused to make toys for children, the wooden crates were turned into items of furniture or games, and tins were made into sports trophies, hair curlers and even a communion chalice.

Today, a rich collection of these items still exists in homes and archives across the Channel Islands, and Carr has been able to assemble many of them for the Jersey exhibition. Together, they speak to the visitor about more than just the experience of life in a German prison camp. Many prisoners personalised their creations with markers of their own identity, or 鈥淰鈥� for victory symbols that spoke of a type of symbolic resistance.

探花直播choice of things the prisoners made is also significant. 探花直播creation of boxes and containers speaks of a lack of privacy in a context where people slept in the same room as 40 or 50 others, perhaps even more. Hunger is a running theme of the exhibits, often combined with a bleak sense of humour about the poor quality of the soup and bread they were fed, and the bodily consequences of consuming it.

探花直播Jersey exhibition follows a similar display in Guernsey in 2010, but features new items relevant to the island as well as a number of different features. Carr worked with internees and designers as well as museum staff to tell the stories of people relevant to the island through a combination of words, exhibits and blown-up images. Movingly, the entrance to the whole exhibition features the names of the deported on one side and, on the other, a larger-than-life image of the announcement of the deportations in the Jersey Evening Post.

鈥淢any of these people did not know how they would or could survive and so had to make objects that could help them endure and survive internment,鈥� Carr added. 鈥淢y research has shown that the objects they made were not just ephemeral 鈥榩retty items鈥� 鈥� rather, they were central to the ability of internees to survive emotionally, psychologically and physically. Many of these objects speak to us so powerfully 70 years on because the internees could not voice or act out their anger, frustrations and anxieties in the normal way. Instead, they poured their emotions into the objects they made 鈥� they provided a safe receptacle.鈥�

Occupied Behind Barbed Wire will be on show at the Jersey Museum until 30 December, 2012. Gilly Carr鈥檚 latest book, Creativity Behind Barbed Wire, is co-edited with Harold Mytum and is published by Routledge.

A collection of artefacts made by prisoners from the Channel Islands in World War II has gone on display in Jersey to mark the 70th anniversary of the Channel Island deportations, with the help of a Cambridge researcher.

探花直播artwork and handicrafts internees made are a testament to the importance of creativity in ensuring the survival of internment.

Gilly Carr

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探花直播project they are working on aims to document the history of protest and resistance in the Channel Islands. She described the collection as: "the single most important resistance archive ever to emerge from the Channel Islands."

A Cambridge 探花直播 archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported to German prison camps during World War II.

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