LIBERATION 80

IN PICTURES: Liberation Day as it happened in 1945…

Here’s how one of the most important days in Jersey history unfolded, told through pictures… Inside the HMS Bulldog off…

GUIDE: Bouanne Libéthâtion! Here’s what’s on for Liberation 80

Here’s what’s on the agenda for islanders looking to celebrate Liberation Day this year – which will mark the first time the event is officially recognised as the island’s national day. 9 May was adopted as Jersey’s official national day…

Liberation mystery solved as WW2 commander’s resting place discovered

A decades-old mystery has been solved, after researchers tracked down the final resting place of the man who led the liberation of the Channel Islands. Brigadier Alfred Ernest Snow commanded Force…

‘Festivi-teas’ to toast school’s Liberation celebrations

Students, teachers, family members and friends took part in a celebratory tea party at d’Auvergne School during the build-up to Liberation Day. The event was organised by the school’s parent-teacher organisation…

OCCUPATION STORIES

FOCUS: The 80-year fight to save a family home destroyed by war

Operation Green Arrow: The German invasion of the Channel Islands

“To lose them… is losing part of Jersey’s history, good or bad”

FOCUS: How islanders were quick to deposit German money after the Liberation

The story of quiet resistance during the German Occupation

FOCUS: Occupation Recipes

New book on Occupation agricultural history offers “food for thought”

Wartime diary reveals untold story of Jersey couple separated by war

FOCUS: The Jersey deportation tragedy, 80 years ago this week

READ: New diary gives fresh view of Occupation through mother’s eyes

FOCUS: 80 years ago today, listening to the radio became illegal

FOCUS: The wartime history of the Mayfair Hotel

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FOCUS: Who were the Channel Islanders who risked their lives to bring us the news?

At a time when listening to the BBC was forbidden and radios were confiscated, a group of Channel Islanders risked imprisonment – and ultimately their lives – to make sure their neighbours still knew what was happening beyond the Nazi-occupied islands. Now, more than 80 years later, the journalists and…

Memoir urges islanders to “break the silence” around German-fathered children

A recently published memoir written by a local author encourages islanders to “break the stigma” around children with German fathers – and instead accept them. LM Davidson, born in the 1950s in England, began writing her memoir during the covid-19 pandemic, but has had an interest in exploring her family’s history…