Methods of Torture #7: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

When watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas many things caught my eye. I noticed in one of the scenes that they showed a video clip about the "fun" life in concentration camps (Herman). In reality the concentration camps were anything but fun. I think they made this video clip to not scare off the Jews that they would later take control of. It was probably easier to control the Jews only until they were confined and stripped of their belongings. While watching I felt a lot of pain because the Jews had to struggle to survive even though their lives were torn apart and ripped into a thousand pieces.To have everything you love taken away from you is one of the worst kinds of torture. I realize now that we don't just learn about the holocaust to feel sorry for the Jews, but to prevent this from ever happening in the future.

Works Cited

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Dir. Mark Herman. 2008. Film.