BACK IN 2006, John Boyne’s young-adult novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, focused on the story of Bruno, the son of an Auschwitz SS officer who befriends Shmuel, a Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp. Predictably perhaps, the author was accused of presenting a misleading view of the Holocaust. He has, however, always argued… Read more »
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