Guernsey pays tribute to Jewish deportees

Reverend Andrew Sharp led the service at the Holocaust memorial

Islanders have paid tribute to three Jewish women who died at Auschwitz after being deported from Guernsey during World War II.

The Holocaust Memorial Day service at midday marked 66 years since the camp in Poland was liberated.

Held at the holocaust memorial the service remembered Marianne Grunfeld, Theresa Steiner and Auguste Spitz.

Reverend Andrew Sharp, who led the service, said: "It was a sorrowful occasion in Guernsey's history."

All three women were deported to France on 21 April 1942, nearly two years after Guernsey had been occupied by the German military forces.