Week two-option 3

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Week 2-option 3

This novel in the beginning is set in Berlin,Germany. Bruno's dad's work then requires him to live in Poland and as much as Bruno hates to pack up and leave his life behind, he then finds himself unpacking crates and living in an old, cold, small and boring house that he refuses to call home.

The different settings in the book are:

Berlin, Germany. 

This is Berlin in Germany where Bruno has lived all his life. 

2. Auschwitz, Poland

Bruno's father has been promoted and as much as Bruno hates to they move to Auschwitz in Poland, their house only meters from one of the worst concentration camps of all time. 

3. Out-with concentration camp in Auschwitz 

Bruno's new home is only meters away from the one of the most horrific death camps in history, Out-with. Bruno wonders why all of those strange 'farmers' are dressed in pyjamas and thinks it is all part if a game. He one day goes exploring and gets a closer look at this perculair 'farm' and makes friends with one of the boys on the other side of the fence. 

A brief history on each location:

1. Out-with, Auschwitz

9 out of ten people who were brought to this death camp were Jews, meaning 10% of all these innocent people were nonJewish and must have defied the Nazis in some way. During WW2 only one man managed to get prisoners out of Auschwitz, Oscar Schindler one remarkable man who outwitted Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to save those imprisoned. In Auschwitz 1.1 million people were massacred to transform Hitlers dream of a so called perfect race into reality.

Here is a photo taken of whats left of the prisoners in Out-with

2. Berlin, Germany

After the Allies won WWII Germany and Berlin was split into quarters. Each of these control quarters included French, English, US and Russia. East Germany was communist and closed to the world. West Germany was capitalist and free, trading with Europe. The Berlin war was purposely demolished on November 9th, 1989 to reunited Germany as one again.

A photo during the fall of the Berlin Wall 

3. Auschwitz, Poland 

Auschwitz was home to the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz originally served as a detention centre for political prisoners. However, it evolved and became a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used for slave labor. During World War II (1939-45), more than 1 million people were slaughtered at Auschwitz. However, not all those who were sent to Auschwitz were immediately murdered. Those who were fit to work were employed as slave labor in the production of munitions, synthetic rubber and other products that were considered essential to Germany's efforts in World War II.

An Ariel photo of one of the many horrific death/concentration camps in Auschwitz 

 

For more information, maps, stories/legends and pictures on the Holocaust visit: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ccphototoc.html 

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144

http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/tp/holocaust.htm

http://www.auschwitz.dk

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/