An artist who set out to explore the German occupation of the Channel Islands has made discoveries that shed more light on Nazi atrocities.
Piers Secunda’s exhibition, Alderney: the Holocaust on British soil, tells prisoners’ stories and confirms the existence of sites of Nazi atrocities.
Alderney, whose population of 1,400 was almost entirely evacuated to mainland Britain in June 1940, and the other Channel Islands were the only parts of the British Isles to be occupied by the Nazis, and thousands of prisoners were transported there as slave labour. Many were Jewish and Russian and at least 700 died.