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Yahoo
13-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
New tour of displays to commemorate Liberation Day
A new collection of displays has been designed to mark the 80th anniversary of Guernsey's Liberation Day. Nine exhibitions have been drawn together in the Liberation Trail around St Peter Port to mark the end of the island's Nazi occupation. The cultural and historical sites will feature personal stories, artefacts and photographs that illustrate the island's wartime experiences. The trail is the result of a collaboration between Guernsey Museum, Island Archives, the Guille-Allès Library, the Priaulx Library, Guernsey Arts, the Royal Court and local historian Marco Tersigni. Organisers said people could start the trail at any display since each would stand alone. Some of the exhibitions were already open, with others opening in May and all would remain on display until 22 June, they said. At The Market Building there will be a timeline of German occupation made from newspaper extracts, photographs and historical documents. The Island Memories project in Guernsey Museum will be an oral archive featuring interviews with residents about their experiences during that point in time. Also in the museum will be an artistic interpretation about the evacuated islanders and an exploration of what happened to the German forces during Liberation. Island Archives will be home to an exhibition about the thousands of permits, licences and letters administrative clerks dealt with after the order for a photographic census of the island's population was made. The stories of those deported to internment camps in Europe will be shared at Guille-Allès Library, including the story of a librarian who was deported. At the Guernsey Visitor Information Centre there will be a display about how islanders have celebrated Liberation since the day itself in 1945 and what the port looked like then. A display in Priaulx Library will show Guernsey's journey from the German surrender of the Channel Island, through British rule until civil government was resumed. The ninth display at the Royal Court marks the German's handover of power and what islanders could do to enjoy their new freedom. Caitlyn Le Patourel of Island Archives said: "Eighty years on, I hope that these exhibitions will allow us to pause and reflect on the Liberation and freedom we have today, and what it meant to the people back then." Follow BBC Guernsey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to Island Memories exhibition recalls WW2 occupation Children to receive replica medal for Liberation Drone light show planned for Liberation Day Princess Anne to visit islands for Liberation Day
BBC News
13-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
New trail in St Peter Port to commemorate Liberation Day
A new collection of displays has been designed to mark the 80th anniversary of Guernsey's Liberation exhibitions have been drawn together in the Liberation Trail around St Peter Port to mark the end of the island's Nazi cultural and historical sites will feature personal stories, artefacts and photographs that illustrate the island's wartime trail is the result of a collaboration between Guernsey Museum, Island Archives, the Guille-Allès Library, the Priaulx Library, Guernsey Arts, the Royal Court and local historian Marco Tersigni. Organisers said people could start the trail at any display since each would stand of the exhibitions were already open, with others opening in May and all would remain on display until 22 June, they The Market Building there will be a timeline of German occupation made from newspaper extracts, photographs and historical Island Memories project in Guernsey Museum will be an oral archive featuring interviews with residents about their experiences during that point in in the museum will be an artistic interpretation about the evacuated islanders and an exploration of what happened to the German forces during Archives will be home to an exhibition about the thousands of permits, licences and letters administrative clerks dealt with after the order for a photographic census of the island's population was made. New freedom The stories of those deported to internment camps in Europe will be shared at Guille-Allès Library, including the story of a librarian who was the Guernsey Visitor Information Centre there will be a display about how islanders have celebrated Liberation since the day itself in 1945 and what the port looked like then.A display in Priaulx Library will show Guernsey's journey from the German surrender of the Channel Island, through British rule until civil government was ninth display at the Royal Court marks the German's handover of power and what islanders could do to enjoy their new Le Patourel of Island Archives said: "Eighty years on, I hope that these exhibitions will allow us to pause and reflect on the Liberation and freedom we have today, and what it meant to the people back then."
BBC News
08-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Channel Islands Holocaust records available to view
The majority of Jersey and Guernsey records relating to the Holocaust have been made available for the public to view in person, the governments of both islands have committed to making all Holocaust records public in 2022 and said many of the records have since been digitised and made available online, with work ongoing to complete the Heritage said many records were available, including files from German troop courts as well as naturalisation and immigration files covering "people of Jewish faith".A spokesperson for Guernsey's Island Archives said a "significant amount of work" had been done to preserve records from the bailiwick's occupation. The UK Government also committed to making all Holocaust records public in 2022. Jersey Heritage said it had identified one record relating to Jewish people in the naturalisation files - about a former Austrian citizen and his wife, staying in London, who had applied to come to from the file showed the couple's application was refused and they applied to the Home Office for a travel document to move to Heritage said its immigration files also showed details of five Jewish people who applied to come to the islands in the 1930s, adding the records showed "the States of Jersey policy towards Jewish immigration at the time". It said there were "still some records closed from the occupation period but these were documents subject to standard closure periods and were not unique to the occupation", such as education and hospital records.A spokesperson for the States of Guernsey said staff at the Island Archives were about halfway through the current batch of digitisation, but expected it to be several years before all records had been Archives said "some of the most popular records" had been digitised and were available online, while others were available to view in said overseas people doing research could also contact the Island Archives to put them in touch with a local researcher.
