IDENTITAESKARTE - Belza Althea TURNER

Canadian Belza Turner was 21 years old when she tried to escape the terror of the German occupying forces on 19th September 1944. Her attempt to reach France in a rubber dinghy stolen from the Germans, along with her Dutch partner, failed after three days and nights at sea.

Adverse weather conditions forced them back to the Island where they were rapidly apprehended by a German shore patrol. After arrest they were separated and faced interrogation by the Geheimefeldpolizei and long weeks in solitary confinement before their trial on 19th December. They were both sentenced to long prison terms but, due to the stage of siege that had persisted shortly after D-Day, they could not be deported and were released from Jersey’s (by then very over-crowded public) prison on 8 May 1945, the day before the Island’s formal liberation. After the war she returned to Canada.

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