Three volunteers on shave-horses removing bark off sweet chestnut poles with draw-knives
Three horsemen of the apocalypse (the other was on day off) Preparing new sways for replica Neolithic longhouse roof ridge 🛖🏺 #jerseyheritage #jerseyci
Joe Mière wrote the following of June Sinclair in his book Never to be Forgotten (2004, 157): She was a half-Jewish orphan from London. She came to Jersey in 1939. For a time she was our next door neighbour at 27 Midvale Road, St Helier. At the beginning of the German Occupation she worked in one of the hotels the Germans had requisitioned – the Continental Hotel in St Saviour’s Road. She told my mother that all her family had been killed during a German raid on London. One day at the hotel where she worked, a German officer tried to kiss her and passed rude remarks about her. She retaliated by slapping his face. The next day she was arrested by the German military police, imprisoned and … deported to Fresnes prison in France. Later on she was transferred to the concentration camp at Brens, near Gaillac, France. Later she was put on a transport to the concentration camp at Ravensbrück where she was killed … in 1943. She was 23 years old.
The Stolpersteine for June, St Helier, Jersey.
Remembering June Sinclair.
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