The Holocaust death toll on the Channel Island has risen by hundreds
A long-running debate over a small part of Britain's Holocaust history has been resolved.A group of historians tasked with investigating the death toll in Alderney, a British Crown dependency and one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel, has corrected the island's historical record, adding several hundred people to an official count of the years '40.Lord Eric Pickles, Britain's special envoy for post-Holocaust affairs, announced last July that a panel of experts would try to resolve the sometimes heated debate. On Wednesday he presented the findings to members of the commission in a packed room at the Imperial War Museum in London.The panel did not arrive at an exact number. It was concluded that the probable range of deaths was between 641 and 1,027, with a maxi...