The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II
The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II
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The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

Written by Michael Rosen
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10 - 14
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128
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Oct 6, 2020
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An award-winning author and poet traces the history of his relatives lost in the Holocaust in a personal, powerful narrative with resonance for readers today. “They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.” That’s all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasn’t enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He asked relatives for any papers they might have. He read book after book. He searched online, time and again, as more information was digitized and suddenly there to be found. In a unique mix of memoir, history, and poetry, scholar and children’s literature luminary Michael Rosen explores his family history, digging up more details than he ever thought he would and sharing them with readers so that now, a lifetime after the Nazis tried to make the world forget the Rosen family and the rest of Europe’s Jews, his readers can do something essential: remember. With an extensive list of titles for further reading, maps of France and Poland, a family tree, and an introduction by lauded author and anthologist Marc Aronson, this immensely readable narrative offers a vital tool for talking to children about the Holocaust against the background of the ongoing refugee crisis.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781536212891
    Publication Date
    October 6, 2020
    Publisher
    Candlewick Press (MA)
    Page Count
    128
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    10 - 14 years

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