The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

No, I don't believe The Boy in The Striped Pajamas shows the Holocaust in the right way because it doesn't specifically show the terrible horror the Jews were in during the Holocaust. It should have mentioned more detailed descriptions about the concentration camps so that the readers could have a chance to reflect on their own and think about the huge disaster that was made in 1938. Showing the story in a child's eye view may interest the readers but most of the time it mainly talked about the house and the family and not much about the important bits such as father's job. This strategy also didn't touch much on The Fury and what they were behind. The author could have showed more of the times with Bruno and Shumel, and the interactions they had, where there were so many things in common between them yet more thing that were strangely different.

Although there were bits of important facts later in the book, there should have been more views of life of Jews. Why they didn't like them and why they couldn't be together is a question many people have been asking after the terrible war. The book should have had more focus on the terrible needs of the HOLOCAUST.

Holocaust Questions

1. Go to the website http://www.ushmm.org/. Go to the section that says education and click on for students. Then, click on antisemitism and analyze the picture. Why do you think there are TWO crows? What does the picture show you when you look at the faces of the Jews? What do you feel?

2. Read the second paragraph and place yourself in the position of the Jews. How do you feel and how do you think they felt when this terrible thing happened?

3. Go back to the home page. Click on Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust. Read the third paragraph and give three good reasons why so many Jews lived in Germany.

4. Go back to the homepage. Click on Nazi rise to power and click on the election article. If you were Hitler, how would you be feeling right now and what would you be planning and going around in your mind?

5. How do you feel when looking at this article? Explain in detail.

6. Go back to the home page and click on the first concentration camps. What do you think is happening in the photo? Why do you think only one guy is wearing a white suit?

7. Reading the first six paragraphs of the writing, how do you think the Jews felt towards the Nazis when this happened? Do you think anybody tried to help?

8. Click on death marches and read the first paragraph. If you were back in that time and you knew the Jews were going to be killed, do you think you would follow the Nazis or support the Jews? Why?

9. Analyze the photo. What do you think is happening in the photo?

10. Reflecting on the terrible holocaust, do you think that if you existed back in that time period, you would have had the guts to stand up for what’s wrong? What is our big learning from this mistake we have made and have endured for a long time?