Drancy Journeys End

Download or read book Drancy - Journey's End! written by Raymond Roscoe and published by PCI Leisure. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story description A Film Treatment is available to legitimate film production companies for this true story Drancy – Journey's End!' - based on the true account of Thomas Roscoe from his 'Wartime Log' which he wrote during his captivity as a teenage civilian. 'Drancy - Journey's End' is written in a novel style. The account stretches from the day he stepped on board the cargo ship in 1937 (at the age of 14) that was to be his workplace and home for the foreseeable future, through to a meeting held at the houses of Parliament in 1993. The book attempts to view things as he would have done at such a young age. This is a true story of a 14 year old British boy from Liverpool who lied about his age in order to fulfil his childhood dream, to see the world. Using his older brother’s birth certificate, Thomas was able to secure himself a job on a cargo ship, SS Davisian in 1937 two years before the outbreak of WWII. The book covers his fears as the ship he was working on was bombarded with shells from a German surface raider, the scuttling of his ship in shark infested waters. It covers the horrors he endured in a concentration camp, the screams of men, women and children as they were beaten and tortured by guards, the fears he had, his hopes and dreams all dashed and then a final battle in 1993 with a British tribunal. The author is trying to get the war and maritime records corrected and to bring this account into the Public Domain. The author is also looking for a film producer to help put this true story on the screen. The only record the Liverpool Maritime Museum has been that Thomas was sent to one P.O.W. camp, Milag-Nord. They had no idea that other camps were involved. They were shocked to see the Parliamentary tribunal transcript about Drancy concentration camp. Why was there no mention to the media back then about non-combatant British teenage civilians being held in Drancy concentration camp? Was it because it would have caused a media frenzy back then and even today, to know that the government tribunal of the time not only played down Drancy as a Concentration camp, but also left British civilians in Germany even after the war. Maybe that was why they denied it was a concentration camp, maybe that was also the reason why that meeting in 1993 was held so late at night and maybe it could have caused a huge legal battle with even greater compensation with the British media wanting to know why they were left there. So, from the tribunal’s viewpoint, deny Drancy was a concentration camp and don't pay the compensation out, compensation that Germany had given. There are others around the world who deny Drancy was a concentration camp, obviously the holocaust deniers are at the top of the list, referring to it as just a ‘transit’ camp. The following statement is in the 1993 tribunal transcript (copy in the book), quote, ‘under the legal definition that we apply in the United Kingdom, we do not accept that Drancy was a concentration camp’, unquote. The 1993 Parliamentary tribunal transcript in the book states, quote, "On 13 August 1992, Helmut Wegner, the Minister Plenipotentiary at the German embassy in London, wrote to stating that his Government confirmed that in the ”Bundegesetzblatt"— the official gazette—Drancy is listed in the published list of concentration camps" unquote. The Israeli Government, at the Yad Yashem memorial in Jerusalem, has a memorial to holocaust victims, listed there is Drancy as a concentration camp.” These are just two of a number of statements listed in the book. According to the Weiner Library in London, the oldest institution in the world that specialises in the Holocaust, Drancy was a ‘concentration camp’ (their statement is in the transcript of the 1993 meeting) toward the end of the book. Interesting too is the fact that on Amazon there are books about Drancy referring to it as a concentration camp and each of those books are of German origin. The Jewish Memorial in San Francisco has Drancy listed as a concentration camp along with Belsen, Auschwitz and numerous other concentration camps. I photographed one particular memorial stone showing Drancy which is in this book. There are also eye witness accounts and other references. There is more to this story, but after nearly 10 years of emails, research and letter writing to various government departments in the UK and abroad there is still a lot of questions that need answers in particular, dates of incarceration. Copyright 2018 Lifetime rights owned by Raymond Roscoe