The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — 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 Holocaust Remembrance Day.