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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
1st Feb, 2017 07:12:32 PM
Edited by jormis29
JesseMB27
Since: Feb, 2013
1st Feb, 2017 07:55:42 PM
Thank you Tropers/jormis29, so very much! (P.S., just so this correction in my description is known, the family that I incorrectly called the "Rosens" are actually named the Roslans).
Edited by JesseMB27
I've been bugged by the inability to remember the title of a book that I read back in Middle school in 2005. Among the details I can remember about it are the following: Two Jewish children (who are brothers as mentioned earlier) who are living in Poland during World War II, of which the younger has blonde hair which makes the older one (who is the protagonist) envious because he "looks German" and thus isn't in as much fear of being spotted by the Nazis. The protagonist is living with a Polish family named the Rosens (or some variation of that name such as Rosenberg, Rosenthal, etc. again I can't remember all the details accurately) who are providing refuge for him from the Nazis. At the beginning, there is a celebration of Passover (in the present day) in which at one point it is mentioned something along the lines that "the Holocaust was more recent and just as true" in which the protagonist (who is a grown man at this point) then goes on to recount the main narrative in an extended flashback. Near the end of it, the uprising in Warsaw against German occupation happens. The protagonist and Rosens also meet a Russian soldier who reveals that he is also Jewish. The book also featured the Rosens in a photo dated 1992 after the conclusion of the novel.