2) A Postcard From… The Past (Occupation survivor Maureen St George)

‘A Postcard From… The Past’ is a special edition series of short podcasts hearing the memories of Occupation survivors in Jersey.

Carrie Cooper spoke with Occupation survivor Maureen St George at a tea party in St Peter. She tells us how she came to be in a children’s home during that time and how she would hallucinate toffee in the road’s hot tar on warm summer days…

* ArtHouse Jersey commissioned artist Helen Marshal from The People’s Picture to create a large scale mosaic portrait made up of over six thousand individual Jersey faces called The Face of Liberation. The public art will now be displayed in St Helier later this year. Part of that project was about trying to discover ‘the face’, the person whose portrait would be depicted in the final artwork. And that meant speaking to many people about their memories of the Occupation. *