Both Guernsey and Alderney held services to honour the memories of those who were killed in the Holocaust.
In Alderney, members of the public gathered with religious leaders and island dignitaries at the Hammond Memorial.
An inquiry into the German’s war time activities in Alderney had found that up to a thousand people had likely died while living in camps in the island during the Occupation.
Many of those people have no known grave.
Wreaths were laid in their memories and prayers said yesterday as the wind blew across the land where many of them had been forced to live and work in appalling conditions during the 1940s.
In Guernsey, the service was held at the White Rock, where the Dean paid tribute to the six million Jews murdered during the Second World War as well as the millions of others killed in the Holocaust and those persecuted in other eras too.
Wreaths were laid at the memorials at the White Rock dedicated to the memory of three Jewish women, the Guernsey Eight, and foreign workers who were enslaved here.
The three Jewish women; Therese Steiner, Marianne Grunfeld and Auguste Spitz had all moved to Guernsey prior to the Occupation. From here they were deported to France and faced their deaths in German labour camps.
The Guernsey Eight were a group of local people who were also arrested and deported during the Occupation.
Marie Ozanne, Sidney Ashcroft, Joseph Gillingham, Percy Miller, Charles Machon, Louis Symes, John Ingrouille and Herbert Smith had all committed alleged acts of resistance.
Thousands of people were brought to the island to build the German fortifications which can still be seen today, that make up what was to be Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall’ of defence.