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The entrance to a former concentration camp, on Alderney. Cristina Baussan for The New York Times

Alderney, a small island in the English Channel, feels like a windswept remote haven. But it hides dark secrets: During World War II, untold numbers of people died in its Nazi camps.

Now, the island is at the center of a debate about how to remember the atrocities — and how to reckon with the fact that Britain has never held anyone responsible for running an SS concentration camp on its soil.

Lives lived: Iris Apfel, a self-described “geriatric starlet,” rose to fame in her 80s, and her wildly eclectic closet formed a hit exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She died at 102.

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