3) A Postcard From… The Past (Occupation survivor Bernie Turpin)

‘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 94 year old Bernie Turpin. Bernie was told by the Germans while working in a garage in town that he would no longer be working on cars but on ammunition. He refused and was sentenced to three months in Newgate Prison, where he escaped by scaling the wall, snapping the tendons in both ankles and dragging himself home to the west of the island…

* 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. *