Rosie's War (36 page)

Rosemary and her prized bicycle, La Reine Marie, in Avignon.

The Manguins and Rosie in St-Tropez.

Rosie is in good health: a cable from Claude Manguin to Commander Say, July 1940. By then, France had fallen.

Madame Izard and the children.

Note scribbled in pencil at the police station to Madame Izard on Rosie’s arrest in Paris, 1940. It was delivered by a friendly policeman.

Rosemary’s German registration papers, Paris, 1940. At this time she was working in a police canteen and had to report to the
Kommandantur
every day.

© Photothèque CICR (DR)

Imprisonment: the barracks at Besançon, originally built in the Napoleonic era.

Roast chicken, plum pudding, sweets and champagne: Rosie’s imaginative birthday menu drawn by Shula in Besançon, 1941.

German offical postcard for POWs, sent from the Grand Hotel, Vittel, to Rosie’s parents.

‘Plenty to do’: Rosie reassures her anxious parents and asks them to contact Frida’s.

(Mémorial de la Shoah/CDJC)

Part of the escape route: in the foreground a soldier keeps watch at the main gates and to the left stands the guardroom.

(Mémorial de la Shoah/CDJC)

Surrounded by barbed wire: imprisoned in Vittel. The collection of hotels contained in parkland made a very effective prison.

Fellow inmate, Shula Przepiorka, daughter of a Jewish leather worker and imprisoned because of her British passport.