The Dame of Sark. Did she help Annie avoid deportation to Auschwitz?
My article about the fate of Annie Wranowsky, the only Jew on Sark during the Nazi German occupation, appears in today’s edition of the Jewish Chronicle.
From the article:
A few weeks after the Germans occupied the Channel Islands, orders were issued regarding the registration of the Jews.
Any Jews in Sark were required to register at the office of the Seneschal, a local official.
A Guernsey police inspector reported to a leader of the island government about Annie, who was believed to be a German national.
He wrote: “Enquiries have been made by the Seneschal of Sark concerning the above named woman. She states that neither her parents nor grandparents were Jews and that she can trace back five generations in her family without encountering Jewish blood. Her passport, No. 558, issued in London on 13/2/39, is stamped with a ‘J’.”