5) A Postcard From… The Past (Occupation survivor Barbara Frost)

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

Barbara Frost was twelve when the Occupation began and seventeen when it ended. Here she remembers the lengths she and her brother Eric would go to source food, from sneaking through a window and stealing the Germans’ supplies to an adventure to a farm, wheeling her poorly mother down St Saviour’s Hill in a makeshift wooden cart. Carrie Cooper joined Barbara Frost for tea…

* 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. *