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

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<p><b>A personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country''s best-loved children¿s authors.</b><br><br>By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen¿s search for his relatives who ¿went missing¿ during the Second World War ¿ told through prose, poetry, maps and pictures. When Michael was growing up, stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. <i>They were there before the war</i>, his dad would say, <i>and weren¿t after</i>. Over many years, Michael tried to find out exactly what happened: he interviewed family members, scoured the internet, pored over books and traveled to America and France. The story he uncovered was one of terrible persecution ¿ and it has inspired his poetry for years since. Here, poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children about the Ho