Nazi’s victims remembered on Holocaust day

Thursday 28th January 2010, 2:29PM GMT.

Yesterday’s service at the memorial to three Jewish women deported to their deaths by the Germans. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0908112)

CHANNEL ISLAND Jews who died in the Holocaust were remembered yesterday.

About 30 people attended a service at the White Rock memorial to three Jewish women who were transported from Guernsey to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War.

Part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of Soviet troops liberating Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in 1945, the service was led by Dean of Guernsey, the Very Rev. Canon Paul Mellor, with readings by Church of Scotland minister Graeme Beebee and John Peters.

Mr Mellor said it was important to remember that the evil behind the Holocaust still existed today.

‘We remember all whose lives were taken from them because of violence and hatred, which afflicts the children of God and of which we are all capable,’ he said.