Launch of website to accompany the review of evidence into the number of prisoners who died on the Channel Island of Alderney during the Nazi occupation
Today (7 August 2023), the United Kingdom’s Post Holocaust Issues Envoy and Head of the UK Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Lord Eric Pickles announced the launch of a website detailing the Nazi occupation of Alderney.
The website www.occupiedalderney.org is an accompanying part of the review, launched on 27 July, of evidence into the number of prisoners who died on the Channel Island of Alderney during the Nazi occupation.
The website will showcase the latest cutting-edge research and will in due course highlight key documents relating to the Nazi occupation of Alderney which are residing in archives.
The website will also be the place where the latest research and evidence can be found on the number of people, including Jews, Spanish, Ukrainians and Russian prisoners of war, who died through the Nazi policy ‘extermination through labour’ (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) in the construction of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall.
The launch of this website reiterates our commitment to transparency. It contains information on prisoner biographies and the latest research on the camps, their regimes, and their histories. We encourage those with additional archival material and estimates of the number of dead to contact us at ukhmfsecretariat@levellingup.gov.uk.
The website is supported by the University of Cambridge, Staffordshire University, and the UK government.
Lord Pickles said:
Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls and Kevin Colls MSc, Staffordshire University said:
Dr Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge said: