Service to be held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day will be marked in Alderney with a commemorative gathering and wreath laying.

The States of Alderney said the memorial day would take place on 27 January with a For A Better Future theme.

Officials said a wreath would be laid by Vice-President Steve Roberts at Hammond Memorial at 11:00 GMT.

"This day is particularly significant to the island, given the suffering that was inflicted upon the workers who were brought to the island, following the evacuation in 1940," officials added.

The States said the service would remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust in a year that sees the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

It said they would be remembered "alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur".

The service has been organised by Alderney Churches Together.

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