An almost unfilmable novel about a young German kid's-eye view of the Holocaust gets a solid, ultimately powerful translation to the bigscreen.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas manages to glide gracefully straight down the middle of these two approaches. Rather than break under the pressure of such a mammoth undertaking, the film flourishes ...

John Boyne, author of the Holocaust novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and its sequel "All the Broken Places." (Rich Gilligan/Courtesy of Penguin Random House) Advertisement.

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 author of The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas has pushed back against criticism of his novel, declaring that people should not read fiction if they are in search of facts.. Dublin-born writer John ...

And watching “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” it struck me that weaving a touching little tale about a death-camp friendship is actually a pretty bad way to teach kids about the Holocaust.

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 ...

Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue — and there are many — about what is happening in the family’s backyard.Even ...

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 ...

Bruno even ventures out of bounds and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), the boy in striped pajamas behind the fence. They develop a dangerous, covert friendship with devastating results.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas An almost unfilmable novel about a young German kid's-eye view of the Holocaust gets a solid, ultimately powerful translation to the bigscreen. By Derek Elley ...

Still, “Striped Pajamas” has its Jewish defenders. One, the 24-year-old composer Noah Max, is behind a new opera adaptation of the book, to be titled “The Child in the Striped Pyjamas.” ...