Organisation Todt Hospital – College Gardens

Due to an outbreak of typhoid, from which a number of Russian workers are known to have died, larger premises were needed, so the Hospital relocated in March 1943 to what was then Ladies College at Rouge Bouillon, St Helier. The building had previously been used as accommodation for foreign workers. 

The Hospital was staffed by two Spanish doctors, two German doctors and a Spanish dentist – all of the orderlies were also Spanish. French and Spanish workers are known to have died there from work site injuries and physical exhaustion. 

Occasionally Russian workers gave birth in Jersey’s Maternity Hospital. In what seems to be a rare act of kindness by comparison to their typical treatment of ethnic Slavs, the Organisation Todt actually published advertisements in the Evening Post newspaper asking for unwanted baby clothes.