By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Rosen's search for his relatives who "went missing" during the Second World War, told through prose, poetry, maps, and pictures. The six great-aunts and great-uncles had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. They were there before the war, his dad would say, and weren't after. Over many years, Rosen 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.
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