Jack Scanlon, left, and Asa Butterfield strike up an unlikely friendship in 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.' Built upon a tragic but gimmicky end -- and an immensely powerful one, despite the ...

Mark Herman’s Holocaust drama “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” occupies an odd, awkward middle ground: It’s too manipulative and sentimental to work as a film for adults, yet its subject matter made ...

(JTA) — A best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust” is getting a sequel.

In 1942 Berlin, nine-year-old Bruno returns from school to discover that his father, a high-ranking military officer, has a new job. He announces that the family—Bruno, mother and his older sister, ...

Moviegoers can be forgiven for feeling a little Holocaust fatigue. There have been so many films about the subject or using it as a backdrop that there’s no shame in feeling a bit numb to it all. And ...

At one point in John Boyne’s new novel “All The Broken Places,” a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with a young Jewish boy in the Auschwitz death camp 80 years prior ...