Gordon Prigent from Jersey was a teenager when he refused to work for German soldiers during the Occupation and was sent to a concentration camp in Alderney.
Iris Prigent says her late husband Gordon struggled to open up about his past - he was just a teenager when he refused to work for German soldiers and was sent to a concentration camp.
"Then one night he was having a nightmare and I said to him, 'Can you tell me?'. He said, 'I don't want to' and I said, 'Gordon, I think you've got to'."Search for relatives of Jersey Occupation heroes Chris Addy from Jersey Heritage describes it: "The harsh working conditions and the brutality they experienced had really long-term effects on both men, particularly Walter who spent 30 years in St Saviours Hospital afterwards."She says: "I think it should be remembered, what happened to a lot of the Channel Islanders, not just Gordon - all the others sent from Guernsey as well - it should be on record so everybody knows what happened.
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