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Guernsey Holocaust service features music saved from bombed city

At 13:00 wreaths will be laid at three memorials on the White Rock, which remember the Jewish women who were deported from the island and later died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, the Guernsey Eight and the foreign workers brought to the island during the German Occupation in World War Two.

The island has held a service on Holocaust Memorial Day since 2005 with this year marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.

The Very Reverend Tim Barker, the Dean of Guernsey who is to lead the service, said: “Holocaust Memorial Day is a significant day.

“It is a day when people of all faiths and none can come together to remember and commit ourselves to building a better world.”


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