List of Alderney Nazi camp prisoners to be created

Dr Gilly Carr said the university had approved funding for the project and said "every name rescued is a victory"

A master list of the names of all the prisoners who were taken to Alderney and held in slave labour camps during World War Two will be created, an academic has announced.

Dr Gilly Carr, from Cambridge University's archaeology department, said the university had approved funding for the project and "every name rescued is a victory".

She said: "It's a way of acknowledging people, because only when you acknowledge a person can you properly memorialise them."

The inquiry ordered by Lord Pickles found it likely 641-1,027 people died under the "brutality, sadism and murder" of Nazi rule on the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.

Dr Carr, who was on the inquiry panel, said people from more than 30 countries had come to the Alderney camps and she hoped the list of names would give families across Europe a better understanding of where their relatives went.

She said she expected to compile the list from a variety of sources such as transportation lists, Red Cross parcels, and people who were at the camp when the island was liberated.

Dr Carr said she expected the research to be completed in the next few months, as the previous research done by the inquiry would give her team much of the information they needed.