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Engraved memorials to Guernsey people killed or brutalised by the Nazis

A Stolpersteine being laid in Jersey. Photo Dr Gilly Carr.

15 stumbling stones, known as Stolpersteine, will be laid in Guernsey today, 26 July, to commemorate those killed or brutalised during the Occupation.

Those remembered include the three Jewesses deported to their deaths in Auschwitz, and the eight members of the Guernsey Underground News Service.

Four survivors of the Nazi regime will also be commemorated.

The memorials are called stumbling stones, the idea of a German artist, and seen in many European towns and cities.

They're brass and concrete cobbles with the name and last home of the victim of oppression engraved on them.

Historians and those involved will take a whole day laying them, beginning in the Bordage at 9am.

The memorial there is to Joseph Gillingham, a member of the Guernsey Underground News Service.

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