Invaded in June 1940, the Channel Islands were the only British territories to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. Photo: Patriots on the island of Jersey tarred the houses of ...

The majority of Jersey and Guernsey records relating to the Holocaust have been made available for the public to view in ...

fell under Nazi rule with the rest of the Channel Islands when the German army occupied France in 1940. Almost all residents on the island “decided to evacuate their homes in June 1940” and ...

The Channel Islands hold the unique distinction of being the only part of our islands occupied by German forces during World War II. Hitler commanded that Jersey be fortified into an unassailable ...

we'll show them (the German forces)". Cliff and Diana Petit were each given the board game as children during the occupation of the Channel Islands Mrs Petit believes she was given her copy of the ...

Islanders are invited to attend services and wreath-laying in Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney marking. | ITV News Channel ...

(JTA) — Many are familiar with the names of the larger Nazi concentration camps like ... Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, where the Nazis imported thousands of slave laborers to build ...

The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in modern European history. At the height of the war, German soldiers occupied lands from the Channel Islands to the Caucasian mountains, from ...

He said: "On the Channel Islands, like in other places ... imprisoned in the island and Europe during the Occupation, and 21 of them died in German prisons and camps. Dr Simpson said the "legacy ...

The events on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi concentration ... President of the Channel Islands Occupation Society, said it was ...

The Channel Islands will celebrate the 80th anniversary of their liberation from German occupation in May Jersey Heritage said it had identified one record relating to Jewish people in the ...