Esther Pauline Lloyd: camp diaries

Identifier
WL1607
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70106
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Jan 1943
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Esther Pauline Lloyd was born in London in 1906 of Jewish parentage. She later married a non-Jew, having relinquished her Jewish identity and brought their children up as nominal Christians, which, according to an entry in her diary, she later regretted.

Having been deported without her family by the occupying Germans in February 1943, she later managed to successfully appeal the decision and was released in April 1944 and allowed to return to Jersey.

Acquisition

Esther Lloyd (2 handwritten diaries - deported from Jersey), sh. doc

Donated June 1998

Donor: Frederick Cohen

Scope and Content

This collection consists of two surviving diaries of a British Jewish resident of Jersey, Channel Islands, whilst in internment camps first in Compiegne, France, and later Biberach, Germany. In addition to a daily account of life in the respective camps at Compiegne and Biberach, the diaries contain notes, addresses, recipes and draft letters.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • See also "The Jews in the Channel Islands during the German occupation", by Frederick E. Cohen published by the Wiener Library.

People

  • Lloyd, Esther Pauline

Subjects

  • Deportations

Places

  • Jersey
  • Channel Islands
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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