Bonus: How a Journalist from Dorsten Discovered the Deportees

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The Guernsey Deportees

Channel Islands Podcasts

12 episodes

4 days ago

A little-known story of wartime resilience. Hear the stories of the last remaining Guernsey deportees. 80 years ago a group of Channel islanders were forced to abandon their homes during WW2, and were sent on Hitler’s orders to Biberach interment camp. Ollie Guillou speaks to his Grandma about the 3 long years she spent in the camp. He’s also joined by three other deportees and two historians, who help chart the life-altering journey these Guernsey people went on, all those years ago. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1395666

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Bonus: How a Journalist from Dorsten Discovered the Deportees

The Guernsey Deportees

22 minutes 25 seconds

6 months ago

Bonus: How a Journalist from Dorsten Discovered the Deportees

**This is a bonus episode. If you've not tuned in before, I recommend you start at ⁠Episode 1⁠**

⚡ Shortly after this podcast first aired, a German journalist reached out to me - and said she was “moved to tears” by Grandma’s story. In particular, her experiences in Dorsten transit camp. That’s because Jana Magdanz was born in Dorsten - and only this year began learning about what happened there in 1942.

💡 In this special bonus episode of the podcast we meet Jana, who’s made it her mission to tell the people of Dorsten what happened during the deportations - a story she says is not well known in Germany. She works for German Public Radio, WDR Cologne - their equivalent of the BBC.

🔎 Her report went live on 9th May, Guernsey’s Liberation Day. You can find it by following this link.

📍 Your host is Ollie Guillou. This is a Channel Islands Podcasts production.

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