Dr Gilly Carr, a Cambridge University historian who is researching the Occupation, has launched a campaign along with Jersey poet Alice Allen and Jersey Museum curator Lucy Layton to honour Islander Dorothea Weber (née Le Brocq) with a plaque outside her former home.
The move comes after the discovery that Mrs Weber had hidden Jewish woman Hedwig Bercu from German forces – and in so doing almost certainly saved her from being sent to a concentration camp.
Dr Carr has requested that Mrs Weber becomes only the second Channel Islander to receive the Righteous Among the Nations honour used by the State of Israel to recognise those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Second World War.
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