DRANCY - Journey's End!: 'If only walls could speak'

By Raymond Roscoe

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Latest revised version with new and updated storyline based on historical evidence. Also, hand drawn illustrations, old photographs and new photographs.

Drancy - Journey's End ' - 70,000 words, is based on the true account of Thomas Roscoe from his 'Wartime Log' which he wrote during his captivity as a British teenage civilian.

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. It covers the horrors he endured in a concentration camp, 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 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 of the time not only played down Drancy as a Concentration camp, but also left British civilians in Germany even after the war.

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

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. Interestingly too is the fact that on Amazon there are books about Drancy referring to it as a concentration camp and each of those books is German. 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. There are also eyewitness accounts, plus more evidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BHNWYYCC
• ISBN13: 9798847582971
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"