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During World War II, Sagan's family worried about the fate of their European relatives.

Sagan, however, was generally unaware of the details of the ongoing war.

He writes, " Sure, we had relatives who were caught up in the Holocaust.

Hitler was not a popular fellow in our household ...

But on the other hand, I was fairly insulated from the horrors of the war.

" His sister, Carol, said that their mother " above all wanted to protect Carl ... She had an extraordinarily difficult time dealing with World War II and the Holocaust ".

Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World ( 1996 ), included his memories of this conflicted period, when his family dealt with the realities of the war in Europe, but tried to prevent it from undermining his optimistic spirit.