'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas': A Haunting Look at the Holocaust

It's an interesting premise. However, that story could never have happened because children that young generally were killed as "unfit to work". Also, any person trying to get that close to the barbed wire would have been killed instantly.

Having said that, if the movie makes us think about the nature of evil and how easy it is to do wrong while believing ourselves right, then the movie has served its purpose.

More than 1.5 of those killed by Nazis during the Holocaust were children. As Joyce said, many of them were killed immediately on arrival at the camps. Other suffered hideous medical "experiments."

I did not like the movie, not for the objections some have raised to making the focus the story of one German boy but because I found the ending manipulative and condescending. There are vastly better and more powerful documentaries and feature films about the Holocaust, including some suitable for older children like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Paper Clips."

Hamid never existed. Hamid was made up by ignorance.

How do you know that the Holocaust never happened, were you there?

Hamid, just who are you ? Are you one of those that know something like this DID happen and by ignoring it, because you dont want to believe it because you are afraid to believe it, will denied that it ever happened? You show you ignorence by saying it did not happened. Who do you think you are fooling? Yourself mostly. What in the world would make you to believe it?...There are many proofs that it DID happen, even the German people believe they were capable of doing such a thing. So by your hatred of the Jews, you think that they thought up allll the horror, and misery, pictures, gas chambers, the stench of burning bodies that the German people were smelling, grave yards,etc, just to fool people? or what was their purpose? I really would like for you to explain your reasoning..Maybe there really is something there that the rest of the world, encluding that little runt in Iran, should know!!!__So, Hamid, I believe in you!!! I believe you know somthing that the rest of us do not!!!! So come forth and please do explain your reasoning for the Holocust not happening!!! I also believe in ONE GOD and He is a Christian GOD!! How about you, Hamid, you sound so intellegent, this could be a really informitive forum. Sincerely

There is a basic problem with this film. There were NO 9 year old boys in Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Dr Mengele made a selection, who would be killed imediately and who would be worked and starved to death before they were killed. If a Jew was under 14 or 15, over 60, or looked ill, they were immediately gassed and cremated.

I agree...the only 8 year olds in Auschwitz were either on their way to be gassed immediately upon arrival or in rare cases a twin used in cruel, sadistic and un-scientifically empirical experiments conducted by Mengele. It’s not a bad movie, a little bit simplified with some basic inaccuracies but nevertheless this movie does have an important message for people.