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Louisa Gould was a member of the Channel Islands resistance movement during World War II. In 2010 Gould was posthumously named a British Hero of the Holocaust for having sheltered an escaped Russian slave worker on the island of Jersey for two years.

Life

Gould, was born Louisa Le Druillenec on October 7, 1891.[1][2]

During the World War II occupation of the Channel Islands, the Nazis used captured Russian soldiers as slaveworkers.[3] Begining in late 1942, Gould hid Fyodr Polycarpovitch Burriy, an escaped Russian slave.[4] She was able to shelter him from the Nazis for 24 months.

A Plaque in St Ouen, Jersey commemorates Louisa Gould's death.

A neighbor reported that Gould was harboring Burrily, who she called "Bill".[4][5] In June 1944, the German forces searched her house. While they did to find Burriy, they found a scrap of paper on which he had been practising his English.[6]

Gould was then arrested by the Nazis and charged. At trial she was sentenced two years in prison for harboring Burriy, and for the posession of a radio which she had kept despite regulations requiring her to hand it in.[7]

Arrested with her were here brother Harold Le Druillenec, and her sister Ivy Forster.[7]

Following her trial, Gould was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. Her brother Harold Le Druillenec was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and would be one of only two British survivors.[8] Louisa Gould was gassed to death in February 1945 in the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbrück.[9]

Burriy managed to avoid capture by the Nazis until the end of the war.[10]

A memorial plaque in St Ouen, Jersey commemorates her death.

In 2010 she was named a British Hero of the Holocaust.[11][12][13]

Gould's story was depicted in the 2016 film Another Mother’s Son.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "The true story of Louisa Gould". 14 March 2017.
  2. ^ Paul Sanders (1998). The ultimate sacrifice: the Jersey Twenty and their "offenses against the occupying authorities", 1940-1945. Jersey Museums Service.
  3. ^ Carpenter, Julie (5 November 2012). "John Nettles: 'Telling the truth about Channel Islands cost me my friends'".
  4. ^ a b "People of the Occupation – Jersey War Tunnels".
  5. ^ Paul Sanders (2005). The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945. Paul Sanders. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-0-9538858-3-1.
  6. ^ Madeline Bunting (24 July 2014). The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945. Random House. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-1-4735-2130-8.
  7. ^ a b Lyn Smith (5 January 2012). Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference. Ebury Publishing. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-1-4481-1812-0.
  8. ^ a b "Stars bring story of Jersey heroine gassed by Nazis to big screen". The Times.
  9. ^ a b "Major film to tell the story of Jersey heroine's bravery « Jersey Evening Post".
  10. ^ Gilly Carr; Paul Sanders; Louise Willmot (19 June 2014). Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940-45. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 195–. ISBN 978-1-4725-0813-3.
  11. ^ www.telegraph.co.uk/history/britain-at-war/7406043/The-remarkable-stories-of-Britains-Heroes-of-the-Holocaust.html
  12. ^ https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/gordon-brown-honours-british-holocaust-heroes-1.14398
  13. ^ "Courage of four Island heroes « Jersey Evening Post".
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