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Author: Thomas Roscoe Publisher: PCI Leisure ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
In the mid to late 1930s at just over 14 years of age, my father applied for a job at sea to fulfill a childhood dream to see the world. His employer, the Harrison Line Ltd., offered him work on the Passenger Cargo steamer, S.S. 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 the voyage, London to the West Indies with general cargo, to his time in a German Prisoner of War Camp and finally, Drancy, a Concentration Camp located on the outskirts of 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. 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 prisoners. From the early 1930s, Drancy became a transit camp until 1940/41 for Jews and others who were being deported to the 'East', an expression Adolf Hitler preferred to use when referring to the 'Death Camps', in particular Auschwitz.
Author: Thomas Roscoe Publisher: PCI Leisure ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
In the mid to late 1930s at just over 14 years of age, my father applied for a job at sea to fulfill a childhood dream to see the world. His employer, the Harrison Line Ltd., offered him work on the Passenger Cargo steamer, S.S. 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 the voyage, London to the West Indies with general cargo, to his time in a German Prisoner of War Camp and finally, Drancy, a Concentration Camp located on the outskirts of 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. 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 prisoners. From the early 1930s, Drancy became a transit camp until 1940/41 for Jews and others who were being deported to the 'East', an expression Adolf Hitler preferred to use when referring to the 'Death Camps', in particular Auschwitz.
Author: Jocelyn Tochor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A Wartime Log was written to document the journey of my grandfather, William Leslie Kell (1916-2016) throughout his time as an Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force and then a Prisoner of War in WWII. He remained a POW for 3 years after his aircraft was shot down in the North Sea and was taken to Stalag Luft 3 in Poland, the setting for the Great Escape, where he became a digger in the tunnels.The reflection was written in his own words and brought to life through the use of photos, clips from his wartime journal and personal experiences.
Author: Fergus M. Bordewich Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 045149444X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 493
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The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War-placing a dynamic House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.
Author: Simon Garfield Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 568
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The third and final part of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed trilogy of diaries drawn from the Mass Observation Archive. Beginning at the height of the Blitz in 1940 and ending with wary victory four-and-a-half years later, this is the intimate story of five ordinary lives caught up in the most dramatic of events.
Author: Robert H. Tank Publisher: ISBN: Category : Prisoners of war Languages : en Pages : 208
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The work of Robert Tank, prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 1, Barth, Germany during World War II, includes copies of his log, cartoons, articles and poems by him and other prisoners and copies of news clippings and other information.
Author: Peter William Sooby Publisher: Writers Republic LLC ISBN: 1646201094 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 116
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During WWII, my father was a soldier in a reconnaissance unit. During a mission in Cologne, Germany, he was captured by the German Army, and held as a Prisoner Of War. He was not only held in terrible conditions, but also made to march hundreds of miles between various camps. Through all this, he managed to keep hidden a diary of his experiences during this time. Should the diary have been found, it would have cost him his life. Still, he took that chance. His diary is a dated summary of all that he went through during his capture. In the diary, he made drawings of his surroundings and maps of both where he was captured and where he was marched across Europe. These were all done from memory. He also kept pictures and telegrams that he had collected during this time. The war took a heavy toll on him, both physically and mentally. Already a small man, he left imprisonment at only 80 pounds. He struggled with his health for the remainder of his life. Although, he never really talked about the war, we knew the atrocities he had witnessed had affected him greatly. Mom said he endured night sweats frequently and nightmares for years after. Despite the challenges from his past and continually failing health, my father pursued his passions and loved his family greatly until the time of his death. We lost my Father due to health complications resulting from the war in 1988, at the age of only 72. Our family lost a great man, father, and grandfather. His memory lives on in us today.
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