In front of an audience of 130 people at the Occupation Tapestry Museum, he said that the five years of occupation were not something to be confined to the fading pages of history.He identified it as something that placed the human catastrophe of the Holocaust in a local context.’It explains the personal and family tragedies of local people who suffered during the Occupation – and in particular those who perished in camps and prisons,’ he said.
‘It acknowledges the cruel and inhumane treatment of slave workers in the Channel Islands.
It gives some information about the immensely courageous Islanders who aided escaped prisoners at great risk and sometimes at great cost to themselves and their families.’
