Jersey

Although the Jewish Congregation is quite small, what it lacks in numbers is makes up for in community spirit and enthusiasm.

The Jersey Jewish Congregation supported a project for Holocaust Memorial Day Trust called 80 Candles for 80 Years and with Jersey Heritage organised volunteers to produce a Candle Stand that commemorates the 8 Jews who were affected by the German Occupation of Jersey. The Stand is on permanent display at the Occupation Tapestry Gallery in St. Helier.

In July of 2024, the Channel Islands became the first countries outside mainland Europe to lay Stolpersteine. Included in the first 20 were the Jewish Residents. Some of their stones are pictured below.

The Synagogue, Petite route des Mielles, St. Brelade, JE3 8FY, Jersey

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The Jewish community first established itself in the mid-nineteenth century.

After the occupation by the Nazis in the Second World War, the community re-established itself in the 1960s, and opened a new synagogue building in October 1972. A service of consecration was conducted by the Chief Rabbi and Rev  Malcolm Weisman (pictured below top; Stephen Regal, past President of the shul, pictured bottom).

The Channel Isles were the only part of Great Britain to occupied by the Nazis during WW2.
Jersey was occupied from 1940-45.

Dorothea Weber - nee Le Brocq (left) risked her life to hide her Jewish friend Hedwig Bercu (right) during the German occupation