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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris in Jersey

‘We’d have perished’: woman, 91, returns to Jersey where she fled Nazis in 1940

Irène Probstein on the beach in Jersey
Irène Probstein on the beach in Jersey on Friday. Photograph: Gary Grimshaw/Visit Jersey

She was last on these sandy shores eight decades ago when her family – just about – managed to stay a step ahead of the rapidly advancing Nazis.

On Friday, Irène Probstein, a 91-year-old Jewish woman who lives in Massachusetts, was back on Jersey to remember her family’s dramatic escape and thank the Channel islanders who rescued them and offered refuge and kindness.

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