I found my gran’s Nazi ID card in magazine at fair
A COLLECTOR told of his shock yesterday after finding his grandmother’s Nazi wartime ID card inside a magazine at a fair.
Ivan Gallienne, 70, bought three publications for £4 but flipped through them only several months later.
His grandmother Helene’s identity card from the German occupation of the Channel Islands fell out of a copy of The Lady.
Ivan said he has no idea how the document, issued to Helene Gallienne, nee Robilliard, ended up in the magazine, but it is now his prized possession.
Next to the ID card were other papers including a leaflet from September 1940 which the RAF had dropped over the family’s home in Guernsey.
There was also a newspaper cutting about the death of Alfie Gallienne, a relative who was blown up in a minefield during the occupation while collecting the island’s “ormer” shellfish on the beach. Ivan said: “I just couldn't believe it and my face dropped.
“These sort of things are my passion. There must have been a couple of hundred magazines on sale and I picked only three.
“I’ve no idea how they ended up in The Lady Channel Isles supplement.”
His grandmother lived in Torteval, close to where he lives now, but died when he was 17. Retired minibus and lorry driver Ivan collects magazines, local memorabilia, newspapers, vinyl records, postcards and stamps.