He is talking to this kid and asks him why he is in striped pajamas, but what he does not understand is that his friend on the other side of the fence is in a concentration camp. He then finds out that he is in a concentration camp, and he asks him if he wants some food. This does not end well because when the concentration camp leader finds out that the boy gave him food, he yells at both the kid in the concentration camp and the one that gave him the…
Bruno also can mix up words, and thought this city was pronounced “Out-With”. After a few days live at Out-With, Bruno found a nine-year old Polish boy on the other side of the fence of a concentration camp. This boy’s name was Shmuel, and happened to have the same exact birthday as Bruno. The two boys would talk every day, until Bruno had to leave to go back to Berlin. Bruno decided to go into the concentration camp with Shmuel for one last time to “play” with each other.…
The two main characters are Bruno and Gretel. Bruno is a nine year old boy that lives in Berlin and moves to poland because his father is the military commandant and they have to live by a concentration camp that is being held by jews, but he still does not know why he is there. Gretel is Bruno’s twelve year old sister known as the ‘Hopeless case’ and is always in everyone else's business, she also thinks that she knows what’s best for Bruno, she like to treat him like a six year old, she also wanted to make sure that he knew she was in charge and he did what she told him to do. The boys clothes are not pajamas, they are uniforms issued to the captives at Auschwitz. the boy’s name is Shmuel, and because he has a star on his “pajamas,” the reader will realize that Shmuel is a Jew.…
Nazi Germany constructed a vigorous conflict between Christianity and Judaism in the early 1900s, and divided Germany because of the variety of incompatible religious beliefs within the country. Nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi soldier, grew up in the middle of this cluster. After he moves from Berlin to Poland, he discovers that there is a concentration camp located near his new house. He becomes friends with one of the jewish boys that lives inside the camp by communicating with him through a fence, and soon realizes the significant amount of differences between their traditions and customs. The divergence that creates the cultural dispute conflicted with Bruno’s identity, but did not cease his ability to maintain a friendship.…
The horrific World War II began with a simple unprovoked attack from the Germans against the people of Poland, which eventually lead to Britain and France declaring war. The nations, and others, were not fully prepared for the catastrophes and casualties that would take place during this deadly war. For example, the American people were at a loss of words after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and innocent lives were taken. When this event, and others like it, panic ran rapidly through every single country involved with the war. When panic begins, people have the tendency to want to “dispose” of the problem as fast as they can.…
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration camp during the Holocaust, during WWII. The camp opened in 1940. It was the largest concentration camp. It included three main camps. One million Jewish men, women, and children were deported, and 960,000 of them died.…
Although Auschwitz was a horrible concentration camp, Mauthausen was also a terrible concentration camp. The sick and weak were sent to Mauthausen to die. Mauthausen was one of the worst concentration camps in World War II due to its organization, treatment of its prisoners, and its death toll. On August 1,1938 Mauthausen concentration camp was established. The first commander was SS Captain Albert Sauer.…
The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel. Together, they risk their lives to save the young Jew's father. Both stories share the same main topic, the Holocaust during World War II.…
Auschwitz The Nazi’s killed approximately 6,000,000 Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust. The Germans had 23 main concentration camps, each camp had about 900 sub-camps, in total the Germans established 20,000 camps between 1933-1945. Auschwitz, a concentration camp during the Holocaust, was the most effective camp by strategically separating into Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. During the Holocaust Auschwitz I was the main camp, it was located in Oświęcim. “In August 1944, it held about 16 thousand prisoners (roughly 10 thousand Jews, 4 thousand Poles, and 3 thousand prisoners from other ethnic groups)“ (“AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU.”)…
Often times when it comes to the Holocaust, the Concentration Camp most taught about and therefore known about, is Auschwitz. This may be because of Auschwitz’ extreme death toll or it’s overall ‘accomplishment,’ of the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, Homeosexuals, and the many other oppressed peoples discriminated against during Hitler’s rule ("Concentration Camp Notes.") Although Auschwitz was the most successful on it’s journey to eliminate Jews, many do not realize, it was only one in six death camps on the same journey, and was only one in the thousands of camps created to hold these people--I mentioned earlier--prisoner during World War II ("Nazi Camps." ) Among these thousands of camps, was a death camp called, “Chelmno.” And through the…
Unlikely Companions Did you know that Nazi Germans killed millions of people in World War II? Many were children, represented as a German boy, Bruno, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy, two fictional characters in the fable Boy in Striped Pajamas. The book takes place primarily in Auschwitz, Poland. This is an unlikely friendship for the two at the time.…
Can you imagine being put in a concentration camp at Auschwitz, where you could be split up from your family? Life wouldn’t be the same. You would not see your family and if you see someone dying in the Camp, you couldn’t help them unless you wanted to be shot. Life at Auschwitz was not the same as if you were living your normal life. There were no toilets, no clean showers, and not even clean drinking water.…
The putrid smell of burning flesh, the piercing screams arising from the gas chambers, and the emaciated skeletons wandering the hellish grounds was the reality for those who passed through the gates of Auschwitz. Oswiecim, a town in southwest Poland, also known as Auschwitz, was the home of the concentration camps famously known as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. These camps became the site of the largest mass murder the world has ever seen (Auschwitz). Conditions in Auschwitz were atrocious, and the amount of deaths the camp yielded was incomprehensible. In 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp rose to power under Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Hoess.…
Cruelty describes something that is beyond evil, such as the acts that the Nazis committed towards the Jews showing the theme of inhumanity to man. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel he describes the way that the Nazis treat him and the other Jews, which is horrific and progressively worsens. When Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the distance . . . And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29).…
It is also shown in a movie that is centered around the Holocaust, Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The movie is based on a true story and is about Bruno, and 8-year-old who has to move to Berlin because of his father's job during World War ll. With a concentration camp basically in his backyard, he goes and explores and finds a little boy named Shmuel, who is a boy in the camp who is Bruno’s same age. The boys then agree to meet everyday and they do until Bruno decides to dig under the fence to be with Shmuel and that causes a whole whirlwind of problems. In this movie the theme of dehumanization is very prominent in many different characters, especially those of his family.…