The evils of the Holocaust are revealed through the eyes of an 8-year-old in “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.” The grim tale, based on the novel by John Boyne, explores the secrets and lies ...

Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” has been heavily criticized by Holocaust historians and educators in the years since its release. (Paul Faith – PA Images/PA Images via Getty ...

Synopsis: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime.

He wonders why the boy always wears “pajamas” (actually, of course, the striped prison uniform), thinks perhaps the numbers sewn on this garb are part of some fun game his pal is playing.

The two embark on a friendship, each envying the other’s mysterious life behind the electrified fence. Bruno believes the camp is a leisure paradise filled with kids and games. And Shmuel knows ...

With “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” writer-director Mark Herman attempts to do on film what John Boyne did on the printed page in his 2006 novel: Confront the horror of the Holocaust in a ...

Of all the stories to be told of the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas offers a new one. The story of a friendship between the son of a Nazi and a Jewish boy inside a death camp is too ...

The study found that 84.4% of students surveyed who said they had seen a film about the Holocaust had been referring to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and that it was both the most read novel and ...

When Adrien Brody majestically played Chopin's "Ballade No. 1” for Captain Wilm Hosenfeld in “The Pianist,” he revealed the simple kind of humanity that can be found amid historical chaos. It may be ...

In the book, Bruno, the 9-year-old son of a Nazi commandant, befriends Shmuel, a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner of the same age; it ends with Bruno donning the “striped pajamas” and ...

The home life of the Nazi commandant of a World War II concentration camp appears bizarrely serene in Mark Herman's grave and powerful drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," but the ...