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Channel Islands collection

2000C26

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Table of contents

Diaries and Correspondence 1941-1945

Scope and Contents note

Contains diaries and correspondence of civilians and internees living on the Channel Islands during the occupation.

Arrangement note

Arranged in two groups: Civilian Materials and Internee Materials; thereunder chronologically.

Civilian Materials 1941-1945

box 1, folder 1

George H. Budge pocket diaries 1941-1945

box 1, folder 2-3

Dolly diaries 1 Jan. 1942- 20 Mar. 1944

box 1, folder 4-7

Elise Morris correspondence 1942-1945

Internee Materials 1942-1944

box 2, folder 1-2

Henry J. Le Goupillot, interned in Laufen 1942- 1944

Scope and Contents note

Contains diaries, letters, photographs and music book

box 2, folder 3

Internment correspondence 1943-1944

Occupation and Post-Occupation Materials 1940-1992 (bulk 1940-1945)

Scope and Contents note

Contains a wide variety of items that documents island life during and after the German Occupation.

Arrangement note

Arranged in four groups: Civilian Materials, Government Materials, German Forces Materials, and Post-Occupation Materials; thereunder chronologically by document type

Civilian Materials 1940-1945, 1992

box 2, folder 4

Aerial propaganda 1940-1944

box 2, folder 5

Currency, Channel Island, circa 1940

box 2, folder 6

Evacuee communications 1941-1944

box 2, folder 7

Photo postcards and photographs 1940-1943

box 2, folder 8

Red Cross messages 1941-1943

box 2, folder 9

The Red Cross Civilian Postal Message Scheme with the Channel Islands during The Occupation 1940-1945 by David Gurney 1992

box 2, folder 10

Theater programs 1942-1943

box 2, folder 11

Miscellaneous documents 1942-1944

Government Materials 1940-1945

box 2, folder 12

Memoranda, correspondence and documents 1941-1944

box 3, folder 1

Identity cards, circa 1941

box 3, folder 2

Official notices 1941-1944

box 3, folder 3

Permits and passes 1940-1944

box 3, folder 4

Postage stamps and tax stamps 1940-1945

box 3, folder 5-6

Ration books 1940-1944

box 3, folder 7

Ration forms and correspondence 1941-1944

German Forces Materials 1940-1945

box 3, folder 8

Aerial propaganda 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

In English, French and German

box 3, folder 9

Currency, German, circa 1940

box 3, folder 10

German personnel materials 1940-1942

Scope and Contents note

In German and contains photographs

Post-Occupation Materials 1945-1948, 1965, undated

box 3, folder 11

Correspondence and postcards 1945

box 3, folder 12

The Criff newsletter 1945

box 3, folder 13

Daily Worker pamphlet 1945

box 3, folder 14

Exhibition flyer undated

box 3, folder 15

Government reports 1945, 1965, undated

box 3, folder 16

Liberation Day souvenir programs 1946-1948, 1995

box 3, folder 17

Ration books and identity cards 1945-1946

Printed Matter 1945-1996

Scope and Contents note

Contains memoirs, poetry, a screenplay, island guides and histories, museum guides and souvenirs, and miscellany. See also newspapers

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by document type and thereunder chronologically

box 4, folder 1

Bibliographies 1970 1975

box 4, folder 2

German occupation 1955-1995

box 4, folder 3

Guernsey Evening Press index 1940-1945

box 4, folder 4

Guernsey Star index 1940-1945

box 4, folder 5

Island guides 1965-1993

box 4, folder 6

Island histories 1944-1958

box 4, folder 7

Jersey occupation tapestry 1995-1996

Scope and Contents note

Contains interactive CD-ROM

box 4, folder 8

Julia Pascal play, Theresa 1990

box 4, folder 9

Merchant shipping undated

box 4, folder 10-11

Memoirs 1947, 1993-1995, 1997, undated

box 5, folder 1

Memoirs 1990 1995 1997 undated

box 5, folder 2

Museum guides and pamphlets, Guernsey undated

Scope and Contents note

In English, French and German

box 5, folder 3

Museum guides and pamphlets, Jersey and Alderney undated

box 5, folder 4

Museum souvenirs, Guernsey undated

box 5, folder 5

Museum souvenirs, Jersey undated

box 5, folder 6

Poetry 1944-1946, 1978

box 5, folder 7

Postal service pamphlets undated

box 5, folder 8

Red Cross S.S. Vega 1996

box 5, folder 9

Société Jersiaise 1945-1946

Scope and Contents note

In French and English

box 5, folder 10

Miscellaneous island books 1994-1998

Audiovisual Materials 1990, undated

Scope and Contents note

Contains an audio cassette documenting occupation experience and two VHS videocassettes, in PAL format, documenting life on the islands

box 6, folder 1

Hitlers British Islands, Channel islands occupation experience, audio cassette 1990

box 6

A living history: Channel islands occupied, VHS cassette undated

box 6

Moving memories, 1915-1945, VHS cassette undated

Newspapers 1940-1995

General Physical Description note: 7

Scope and Contents note

Contains newspapers printed during the occupation, post-occupation, and special-issue Liberation Day editions.

Arrangement note

Arranged chronologically by type

box 7, folder 1

Occupation newspapers 23 Oct.1940 - 21 Mar.1945

Scope and Contents note

In English and German

box 7, folder 2

Post-occupation newspapers 11 May 1945 - 25 Aug. 1945

Scope and Contents note

In English, French, and German

box 7, folder 3

Liberation Day commemorative editions 1946-1995

Collection Contents

Diaries and Correspondence

Civilian Materials

Internee Materials

Occupation and Post-Occupation Materials

Civilian Materials

Government Materials

German Forces Materials

Post-Occupation Materials

Printed Matter

Audiovisual Materials

Newspapers