North Beach plaque to remember deportees

Wednesday 17th March 2010, 2:29PM GMT.

Culture and Leisure minister Mike O’Hara at the spot where a memorial plaque for people interned on the Continent during the Second World War will be unveiled on Friday 23 April, 65 years after the camp at Biberach was liberated. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0933277)

A PLAQUE is to be put up at North Beach to remember people who were deported from the island during the Occupation.

In 1942 and 1943, 1,003 islanders were taken and put in civil internment camps on the Continent including at Biberach in south-west Germany.

They were deported in retaliation for British internment of Germans living in Persia (modern-day Iran).

The Guernsey Deportees’ Association, in conjunction with the States, now wants to put up a plaque to remember them.

Plans are currently with the Environment Department.

Culture and Leisure minister Mike O’Hara said it was important that those people who were deported were never forgotten.