PEOPLE from six countries will join together on Thursday to remember 12 Islanders for whom Liberation never came.

They are due to lay wreaths at Bad Wurzach’s war memorial where the names of the Islanders, who died while interned in the spa town’s 17th century castle, are etched alongside the names of townsfolk killed fighting in two world wars.

Ex-internees – some returning to the place of their incarceration for the first time – and their families, Germans, representatives from Bad Wurzach’s twin towns in Poland, France and England, families of French PoWs and Dutch Jewish survivors of Belsen concentration camp came together to lay wreaths in a tiny hillside cemetery.

Today is the 60th anniversary of the liberation by French troops of the makeshift camp where 618 Islanders of British blood were imprisoned from the autumn of 1942 to April 1945.

Bad Wurzach teacher Hermann Bilgeri, who has devoted the past 25 years to forging links with Jersey, said: ‘I am so happy that so many have come back for the first time in 60 years and that they have been joined by people from our other twin towns.’