1 real historical location · 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 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning 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 ...
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