4) A Postcard From… The Past (Occupation survivor Joyce Norman)

‘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 97 year old Joyce Norman. Being one of ten siblings, she remembers how difficult it was for her parent’s to keep everyone fed. First though, as a young 17 year old woman Joyce remembers being angry at all these new restrictions imposed upon her young adult life…

* 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. *