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

Michael Rosen

The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
20 August 2024
Pages
128
ISBN
9781536236217

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

Michael Rosen

"An important work that is immensely personal, powerful, and heart-wrenching." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"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 Second World War, was told about his family members who had been living in Poland or France when the war began. This wasn't enough. So, as an adult, he searched for them. 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 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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