There are very many survivor accounts of the Holocaust that are accessible to young people, or novels that are more accurately based in fact and less problematic from a historical and ethical point of view, that teachers could use in the classroom.
Our learning programme for children and young people is based on the life stories of 16 children and young people who escaped or survived the Holocaust. Here are some of the alternative publications we suggest teachers look into.
The book was painstakingly researched but is accessible for young people. The book is based on a series of award-winning animations produced in partnership with the BBC. This semi-autobiographical book gives a childs-eye view of the Second World War. In Denmark the Danish population came together and were able to save the majority of Danish Jews by helping them flee to neutral Sweden or hiding them within Denmark, this is the story of one families role in the rescue.
Anne is a real child writing about her real experiences living under Nazi rule whilst in hiding in Amsterdam. There are also versions available that are suitable for primary school students. We have first-hand filmed survivor testimony on our website that is available to use for free, this can be found here.
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Themes All Themes. He thinks that Shmuel, the identically aged Jewish boy whom he befriends through the fence to the concentration camp, lives there with his family voluntarily, and Bruno never understands exactly why Shmuel is there, or why he is so thin. Presumably, Bruno is left in the dark about so much of what his family does and why they do it in order to preserve his innocence.
However, this innocence is entirely based on ignorance, and it ultimately leads to his death. The innocence enforced on Bruno becomes a damning echo of the ignorance that so many others enforced on themselves. Bruno, as a nine-year-old boy, loves nothing more than to explore, and this is how he comes to meet Shmuel through the fence of the concentration camp. Despite the barrier between them, the boys develop a relationship based on conversation, rather than the rough-and-tumble games that Bruno enjoyed with his three best friends back in Berlin.
The boundaries in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - whether they are social boundaries, such as the inability to ask certain questions, or physical ones, such as a closed door or a fence - all lead to dire consequences.
However, one small comfort of the bleak ending is that Shmuel, for all of his terror in the concentration camp, dies in the company of a good friend who has supported him throughout the last year of his life. As is the case for much of the text, the idea of boundaries acts as an allegory for one aspect of the horrors of the Holocaust. Despite the fact that decades now separate the carnage and terror of camps such as Auschwitz from the world today, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas shows how dangerously easy it can be to get caught up in such acts when people are forcibly divided, and when people are unable to openly discuss the consequences of current affairs.
She then dies while the family is still in Poland, before she and her son have a chance to be reconciled. A nine year old German boy and son of an SS Commandant. He is oblivious to the war and activities at Auschwitz, or 'Out-With', as he mispronounces it. A nine year old Jewish boy imprisoned at Auschwitz. The Commandant. Father to Bruno and Gretel. He moves his family to Auschwitz, which has been placed under his control.
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