Holocaust
The word
“Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and
“kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a
sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has
taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6
million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted
groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime
during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf
Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German
racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany,
during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final
solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under
the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in
the concentration camps of occupied Poland.
Nazi
made a holocaust to Jews people and humanity with isolation camp. The
film:”The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” in
the United States,2008.historical
period drama based
on the novel
of the same name by
Irish writerJohn
Boyne. Directed
by Mark
Herman,
produced by Miramax
Films,
and distributed by Walt
Disney Studios Motion Pictures,
the film stars Asa
Butterfield and Jack
Scanlon.
The film is a Holocaust drama
that explores the horror of a World
War II Naziextermination
camp through
the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; one the son of the
camp's Nazi commandant
(Butterfield), the other a Jewish inmate.
An
8-year-old boy named Bruno (Asa
Butterfield)
lives with his family in Berlin,
in Nazi
Germany during
the Holocaust.
He learns that his father Ralf (David
Thewlis)
has been promoted, due to which their family, including Bruno's
mother Elsa (Vera
Farmiga)
and 12-year-old sister Gretel (Amber
Beattie),
relocate to the countryside. Bruno hates his new home as there is no
one to play with and very little to explore. After commenting that he
has spotted people working on what he thinks is a farm in the
distance, he is also forbidden from playing in the back garden.
Bruno
and Gretel get a tutor, Herr Liszt (Jim
Norton),
who pushes an agenda of antisemitism and nationalist propaganda.
Gretel becomes increasingly fanatical in her support for the Third
Reich,
covering her bedroom wall with Nazi
propaganda posters.
Bruno is confused as the Jews he has seen, in particular the family's
Jewish servant Pavel (David
Hayman),
do not resemble the caricatures in
Liszt's teachings.Bruno soon discovers the true nature of the camp
after seeing the many sick and weak-looking Jews. While searching,
the boys are taken on a march with other inmates by Sonderkommandos.
But, according to statistics from the Labour Assignment
Office, Auschwitz-Birkenau contained
619 living male children from one month to 14 years old on 30 August
1944. On 14 January 1945, 773 male children were registered as living
at the camp. "The oldest children were 16, and 52 were less than
8 years of age. Some children were employed as camp messengers and
were treated as a kind of curiosity, while every day an enormous
number of children of all ages were killed in the gas chambers.
This
tragety shows how sometime human cannot behave like human and don;t
think that they are people also.The innocent children of the
holocaust say this antisimitic propaganta and racism of Nazis.