Albert Bedane

Albert Gustave Bedane (1893–1980) lived in Jersey during the German occupation during World War II, and provided shelter to a Jewish woman and others, preventing their capture by the Nazis. In 2010, Bedane was posthumously named a British Hero of the Holocaust.

Life Albert Bedane was born in Angers in France in 1893 and lived in Jersey from 1894. He served in the British Army, 1917-1920, and was naturalised as a British subject by the Royal Court of Jersey in 1921. By profession he was a masseur/physiotherapist, running a physiotherapy clinic from his home in Roseville Street, St Helier.

During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, some of the Germans came to his clinic for treatment.

On 9 March 2010 the award of British Hero of the Holocaust was made to 25 individuals, including four Jerseymen, by the United Kingdom government in recognition of UK citizens who assisted in rescuing victims of the Holocaust. The Jersey recipients were Louisa Gould, Ivy Forster, Harold Le Druillenec and Bedane. It was, according to historian Freddie Cohen, the first time that the UK Government recognised the heroism of Jersey islanders during the German occupation.

The Righteous Among the Nations medal and certificate are on display in the Occupation Tapestry Gallery at the Jersey Maritime Museum on New North Quay.

A plaque erected by the Vingtaine de la Ville marks the site of his home in Roseville Street, St Helier, where he sheltered escapees.