Bruno's Unfortunate Nativity In The Holocaust

Bruno’s Unfortunate Nativity in the Holocaust Bang! Bang! Bang! That was the sound of Jews being killed by Nazis, German soldiers under the control of Adolf Hitler. He was the supposedly “president” of Germany at the time who had a belief of killing others that were “different” than him, mainly Jews. Jews would have to hide in towns, so they wouldn’t be found and sent to concentration camps. That didn’t work for at least 60% of them. These people were tortured and killed at concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, which is one of the main cities in the book The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne. This book is about a nine-year old German boy named Bruno, who lived in Berlin at the time and was very naive. After his father got a rank promotion in the Nazi Party, Bruno’s family moved to a …show more content…
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. Shmuel then was worried because his “Papa” was missing. Bruno decided to help Shmuel find his “Papa”, but suddenly both of them died by being forced by Nazis to march into a gas chamber (Boyne). This can show how it was terrible that Bruno was naive because he would've known what was happening around him, and he would’ve known certain things