20th September 1945
Jersey man gives evidence at Belsen concentration camp trial
Jerseyman Harold le Druillenec was the only British survivor of the Belsen concentration camp, to which he was sent towards the end of the Second World War. He had already spent time in several other camps over the previous year. He had been arrested, along with 17 members of his family, for helping his sister Louisa Gould to shelter an escaped Russian officer.
Following the war, he gave testimony at the trial of those who had run the camp, describing an intolerable regime in which cannibalism was rampant and where he was tasked with placing bodies in mass graves.
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Writer Philippe Langlois is born
- Philippe Langlois was a qualified doctor and a medical officer in the Royal Jersey Militia, as well as an author and poet.
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Men are killed by an exploding threshing machine
- Two French workers were killed in Jersey when the boiler of William Lane’s steam-powered thrashing machine exploded.
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Queen Victoria visits Jersey
- When Queen Victoria visited Jersey in 1846, seats had to be found for 6000 spectators and a pavilion erected for her use.
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Jersey Airways suffers fourth mishap in 11 days
- Jersey Airways suffered its fourth accident in eleven days during an attempted take-off in September 1934.
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