Islanders invited to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
BBCIslanders have been invited to attend a service to remember the victims of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide.
On Tuesday, wreathes will be dedicated and laid at the White Rock at 13:00 GMT at plaques to three Jewish women, the Guernsey Eight, and foreign workers forced to work during the German Occupation.
The States said Holocaust Memorial Day aims to bring people together from all backgrounds, learn more about the Holocaust and more recent genocides for a "better future".
Leading the service Reverend Justin Taylor said the 2026 service theme Bridging Generations encourages all islanders to engage actively with the past and to listen, learn and "carry those lessons forward".
He said: "Today, we honour the Jewish people who were murdered, including those whose suffering is part of Guernsey's wartime story.
"In remembering them, we listen across generations, carrying memory into the present so that history is not repeated, and humanity is never diminished."
Three Jewish women were deported from Guernsey to France by the island's civilian authorities on the orders of the occupying forces.
They were later rounded up and died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Guernsey Eight all died in prison or in camps as a result of the Nazi occupation of the island during World War Two.
Foreign workers were brought to the island to work for the German authorities as they built structures around the island as part of the defence network stretching from Norway to France's border with Spain, dubbed Hitler's Atlantic Wall.
President for the Policy and Resources Committee, Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez, said the event was an opportunity to contemplate not just the tragedy of the Holocaust but other genocides as well.
She said last year marked the 80th anniversaries of the liberation of Auschwitz and the of the island.
De Sausmarez said: "We also watched in horror the barbaric antisemitic attacks in Manchester and Bondi Beach.
"It is so important that future generations are not desensitised to the inhumanity and suffering that these hostilities and prejudices cause.
"They have no place in our community."
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