During World War II she and her family sheltered Russian forced labourers brought to the islands by the Nazis, activity that resulted in her sister being killed in a concentration camp.

[2] During World War II and the German occupation of the Channel Islands, both she and her sister Louisa sheltered Russian forced labourers.

In 1944 a letter informing the Germans about Louisa sheltering another Russian, Fyodor Buriy [ru], was intercepted.

Although Buriy was moved to Ivy's house, the Geheime Feldpolizei found evidence of his stay at Louisa's home.

[4] Ivy was spared deportation due to being given an exemption on health grounds after a doctor pretended that she was suffering from tuberculosis.