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**The boy in the striped pyjamas**
 * Age 16+**
 * key words : Extermination, gas chambers, concentration camp**

This story is about a young eight year old boy named Bruno who lives in Germany with his mother, father and sister. His father is a soldier. The family moves to the country side, because the father is assigned to take command at prison camp.

Bruno discovers his new house, and notices that many things have changed. He becomes friends with a Jewish boy named Shmuel who lives behind an electric fence by Bruno's house. It is actually a concentration camp where all the Jews were waiting for extermination.

Bruno is too young to understand what is going on. He ends up getting really close to Shmuel and sneeks into the concentration camp to help Shmuel find his parents. During this process, the German whistles blew and all the Jews were asked to go into the gas chambers. Bruno doesnt know what is going on and finally is sent to the gas chambers as well.

I believe that the age group for viewing this movie should be a minimum of sixteen and over for many reasons. First of all the scenes are very powerful and emotional. It leaves us with a lingering feeling of horror and sadness. It makes us realize how powerful and evil human beings can be. We get to see the evil truth of the Holocaust.

The movie does very much represent the Holocaust, and it also represents it in an realistic matter. It represents an event that occured during the holocaust. It shows real images of the Holocaust and its horrifing past, and what inocent people actually had to live through. Words cannot explain the horrible sick feeling I get when learning about the worlds most horrific event in history. It makes me question our humanity and how we let this happen to the world.

From watching this movie students can reflect on different issues of the holocaust, and it enables them to understand the horrible things that happened in World War 2. We get a clear explanation to where the holocaust started and how horribley it ended peoples lives.

-Emily Crepeau