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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 historical fiction novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz and Bruno's friendship with a Jewish detainee named Shmuel. As of 2022, the book has sold over 11 million copies worldwide.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has a 64% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 142 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A touching and haunting family film that deals with the Holocaust in an arresting and unusual manner, and packs a brutal final punch of a twist."
Although The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is Scanlon's feature film debut, [3] he did act before. He appeared in a 10-minute short film titled The Eye of the Butterfly (which led to him being suggested to the casting director of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ) [ 4 ] and in a 2007 episode of the Peter Serafinowicz Show .
Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is a Jewish variant of the name Samuel. It comes from שמואל in Hebrew, and is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek .
All the Broken Places is a sequel to Boyne's 2006 book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and follows Gretel, the now 91-year-old older sister of Bruno from that book. Gretel has lived in London for decades, never speaking of her childhood in Nazi Germany as the daughter of a concentration camp commandant.
The film was released first in the UK as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and subsequently released in the US as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Most reviews and descriptions of the film used as references in this article use the US title. This article uses the UK title as that is the first country of release and the original title.
Shmuel Skaist, known professionally as Rav Shmuel, is an American Orthodox rabbi, speaker, and musician from Brooklyn, New York.Initially gaining recognition for his Jewish outreach programs aimed at Phish concertgoers, Skaist taught in yeshivot in New York and Israel for several years before deciding to pursue a music career.
Boy in the Striped Pajamas (characters) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 July 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on 6 August 2014. The original page is now a redirect to this page.