A War Time Log by Thomas Roscoe, editing and additional research by Raymond Roscoe

Download or read book A War Time Log by Thomas Roscoe, editing and additional research by Raymond Roscoe written by Thomas Roscoe and published by PCI Leisure. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid to late 1930s at 15 years of age, my father applied for a job at sea in order to fulfill a childhood dream to 'see the world'. His employer, the Harrison Line Ltd., offered him work on the Passenger Cargo steamer SS Davisian. Little did he know that his dream was going to be cut short by WWII and the sinking of the merchant ship he was working on. This book is a combination of his thoughts during that time, together with illustrations and photos of the time when his Merchant ship was attacked and sunk approx 410 miles north of Barbados and sunk in position 18,00N 54,30W on voyage, London to West Indies with general cargo, to his time in a German Prisoner of War Camp and finally, Drancy a Concentration Camp located near Paris in occupied France. During the period of German occupation 26 concentration camps were operated in the Occupied Zone. The central concentration camp in France was Drancy, not far from Paris. Following the German occupation in 1940, Drancy was initially used as a camp for French and British prisoners of war. Beginning in the summer of 1941, when the roundup of Paris Jews began, Drancy was used to imprison Jewish A WAR TIME LOG detainees. From March 1942 Drancy became a transit camp for Jews who were being deported to the 'East', an expression Adolf Hitler preferred to use when referring to the 'Death Camps'. T