Witness History
Witness History
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
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December 13, 2022
9 minutes
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Shopkeeper Louisa Gould risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner who had escaped from the Nazis during the German occupation of Jersey in World War Two.
She was later betrayed and died in Ravensbrück, a concentration camp, in 1945.
Vicky Carter speaks to her great-niece Jenny Lecoat.
(Photo: Louisa Gould. Credit: Courtesy of the Channel Islands Occupation Society (Jersey) Collection held at Jersey Archive)