Victims, not collaborators
An exhibition running in London until February aims to counter the popular perception outside the Channel Islands that the Occupation was dominated by collaborators, says its curator, Dr Gilly Carr.
A new exhibition on the subject of the Channel Islands’ victims of Nazi persecution has opened in central London.
Unveiled by Jersey’s Sir Philip Bailhache at the Wiener Library for the study of the Holocaust and Genocide, ‘On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands’ has been guest-curated by Dr Gilly Carr of the University of Cambridge.
‘It tells the story of the islands’ Jews, political prisoners and foreign labourers and, by focusing on the stories of individual islanders, aims to counter the popular perception in England that the Occupation was an experience dominated by collaborators,’ said Gilly.
The exhibition also focuses on post-war themes, such as the post-traumatic stress disorder of those who returned from Nazi prisons and camps.
On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands is at the Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, until 9 February 2018. Gilly Carr is teaching an associated online course next January. For more information go to www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/british-soil-nazi-persecution-and-channel-islands. The Frank Falla Archive website can be seen at www.frankfallaarchive.org.