The service, at the War Tunnels’ Garden of Reflection, marked the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Islanders who
were held in the German castle.
In 1942, 618 men, women and children were taken from Jersey to the castle in the small town of Bad Wurzach, close to the Swiss border. Of those 618 people, 12 did not return. The town was eventually liberated by Allied forces on 28 April 1945.
Jersey families were selected if the male head of the family was born in the UK, and their internment was an act of retaliation on Hitler’s part, after German nationals had been imprisoned in Persia.
Francelise Davison (77) was three years old when her family boarded a boat to St Malo in 1942 on their way to the German town. Her father was originally from Liverpool.
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