Putting Light on Islands Occupation Interconnections

In the spring of 1941 the Germans began an immense construction

program of military defence structures in the Channel Islands. The

workers transported to the Islands to construct these fortifications

comprised a number of specific categories including conscripted,

voluntary, forced and slave workers. and Jews .

The narrative of the deportation of Jews from Channel Islands is not completely right as many Jews also imported to the Channel Islands . Joint Macus Roberts letter with this campaign brings to the publics attention. Also interconnection with the islands of movement of people and Slave labour. Macus Roberts has a excellent background in putting light on the dark periods of British occupation history during WW2.

Please see the the Joint Open Letter that's on this Campaign Website.

On 24 June 1944, after D-Day, the Germans began the mass evacuation

of most of the SS Sylt prisoners together with many workers from other

Alderney camps with a several convoys to Jersey and they called at Guernsey.

Leslie Sinel recorded the arrival in Jersey of the prisoners

Of the remaining Jewish forced workers:

‘28 June 1944 – In the morning six fair sized vessels, with an

escort, arrived with 1,500 persons of all nationalities. It was

learned that they were foreign workers from Alderney, prisoners

from a concentration camp in that Island, a few evacuees from

Cherbourg and some foreign workers from Guernsey, military

and naval personnel also arrived,

The transfer on mass remains significant as the Joint Campaign and Macus Roberts letter explains to be found here https://www.peoplesmemorial.info/