Dorothea Weber

Dorothea Weber (14 May 1905 - May 1993) was a Jersey person who sheltered a Jewish woman during the German occupation of the Channel Islands. She was posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations and a British Hero of the Holocaust.

Life In August 1940 Germany occupied the Channel Islands and in 1941, Dorothea Le Brocq married Anton Weber, an Austrian baker who had been living on Jersey since February 1938. Anton Weber was drafted into the German army in 1942.

Dorothea returned to England after the trial. She died in May 1993, aged 82, and her ashes were scattered in the memorial gardens of Worthing. This is an honour bestowed on non-Jewish people who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

In January 2018, she was honoured as a British Hero of the Holocaust. Recipients of the honour in 2010 had included four people from Jersey: Albert Bedane, Louisa Gould, Ivy Forster and Harold Le Druillenec.