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.
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