4 real historical locations · Germany, Poland
Based on John Boyne's novel, this film depicts a friendship between Bruno, the eight-year-old son of an Auschwitz commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy on the other side of the fence. Used globally as an educational tool about the Holocaust.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, Poland.
A German commandant's son befriends a Jewish boy through the fence of a concentration camp. Set near Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp. Over 1.1 million people were murdered there, 90% of them Jewish. It was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945 — now observed as International ...
View location →The electrified fence at the edge of the camp where eight-year-old Bruno meets Shmuel, the two boys talking daily through the wire, unaware of what lies on S...
The film uses a child's-eye view to portray the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp operated from May 1940 until liberation by Soviet forces on 27 January 1945.
View location →The comfortable family home adjacent to the camp where Bruno's father serves as commandant. The idyllic suburban facade directly overlooks the chimneys of Bi...
Real SS commandant Rudolf Höss lived with his family in a villa at the edge of the Auschwitz camp. His memoir describes his family life alongside mass murder operations.
View location →Bruno's family home in central Berlin before his father's promotion forces the entire family to relocate to the camp in Poland, uprooting Bruno from everythi...
The film opens in wartime Berlin, depicting the ordinary domestic life of a Nazi officer's family before assignment to Auschwitz highlights the banality of evil.
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