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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adapting the book that the Auschwitz Museum said ‘should be avoided’

Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant of a concentration ...
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable

Jack Scanlon as Shmuel and Asa Butterfield as Bruno in The Boy in Striped Pajamas.David Lukacs / Miramax Film Corp. When the full extent of the Holocaust became generally known after the end of World ...