Review on 👕 John Boyne Boys' Striped Pajamas for Boys' Clothing by Michael Barrett

The horrifying book about the Holocaust should be removed from all school curricula. My son read this book at school and I picked it up and read it after hearing mixed reviews about it. This is a terrible task for Holocaust education, and also a deeply misleading task. He takes the horrors of a concentration camp and uses them to build a story revolving around a little German boy, the son of a concentration camp commandant, and what goes wrong in his life when he befriends a little boy over a fence , without having the slightest idea about it. Depiction of the atrocities inside. It is deeply unrealistic and oversimplifies the deep horror of the Holocaust, using it as a stage costume for an incredibly ignorant little German boy and creating a false equivalence of trauma for the undemanding reader. Look for coverage of it (because I'm not allowed to link to it here) - it's heavily scolded by Holocaust educators, but it was the first work on the Holocaust that many children read.