The Channel Islands, Nazi persecution and the Holocaust

On 9 June, Dr Gilly Carr will hold a lecture and moderate a discussion at the Wiener Library on the history of Nazi persecution in the Channel Islands during the German occupation of 1940-1945.

No ‘roll of honour’ was ever kept of those who were sent to prisons and concentration camps from the islands for acts of resistance. The exact numbers of those sent away are still not known. The memory of many of these people was not held in high esteem in the decades after the war. Discussion of the Jews deported from the Channel Islands was an even more delicate subject for discussion, as their story potentially involved collaboration. This lecture sheds light on the silence surrounding victims of Nazism in the Channel Islands and gives voice to some of their extraordinary stories.

This lecture is part of a series of programming designed to highlight aspects of the exhibition, Dilemmas, Choices, Responses: Britain and the Holocaust, co-curated by the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Regional Ambassadors and the Wiener Library. Among other topics, the exhibition includes documents and pamphlets on Nazi persecution in the Channel Islands. Participants will have the opportunity to view the exhibition prior to the lecture.

Dr Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at St Catharine’s College. Her research focuses on victims of Nazism in the Channel Islands, post-conflict heritage studies, and conflict archaeology. In 2014, Caroline Sturdy-Colls of Staffordshire University organised an IHRA Chairmanship conference entitled "What Britian Knew: the Holocaust and Nazi Crimes" where Dr Carr spoke on a similar topic. Read more about the conference here.

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