6. A Woman Named Louisa Gould Tried to Save One Of The Slaves
Louisa Gould was a shopkeeper who lived in the parish of St. Ouen, on the island of Jersey. She decided to stay during the occupation so that she could keep the store open for the citizens who were left behind. She secretly kept a radio in her home, so that she could hear the news from England, and she was a member of the Channel Islands Resistance Movement.
In 1942, she rescued a Russian slave who had escaped named Feodor Polycarpovitch Burriy. She successfully hid him in her shop until 1944, and told everyone that he was her friend named “Bill”. One of her neighbors ratted her out to the Nazis, and Burriy managed to escape before they could raid her home. Unfortunately, the Nazi officers found scraps of paper where Burriy was practicing his English. When Louisa Gould was caught, and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. She died in the gas chambers in 1945, mere months before World War II was over. But the story of her bravery and kindness towards a fellow human being were not forgotten. Her story is memorialized in museums around the world, and she was posthumously given the award of “Hero of the Holocaust”.