Wait whats wrong with boy in the striped pyjamas?

thezoharofficial:

Welp you could check the “Critic’s Reviews” section of the Wikipedia page for a really easy explanation:

“Some critics have called the premise of the book and subsequent film – that there would be a child of Shmuel’s age in the camp – erroneous. Reviewing the original book, Rabbi Benjamin Blech wrote: ‘Note to the reader: There were no 9-year-old Jewish boys in Auschwitz – the Nazis immediately gassed those not old enough to work.’ Rabbi Blech affirmed the opinion of a Holocaust survivor friend that the book is ‘not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation’. Blech acknowledges the objection that a ‘fable’ need not be factually accurate; he counters that the book trivializes the conditions in and around the death camps and perpetuates the ‘myth that those […] not directly involved can claim innocence’, and thus undermines its moral authority. Students who read it, he warns, may believe the camps ‘weren’t that bad’ if a boy could conduct a clandestine friendship with a Jewish captive of the same age, unaware of ‘the constant presence of death’.”

Everything is fucking wrong with it, to put it simply. The author is an non-Roma goyische Irish guy who (allegedly) wrote it in two and a half days, which, from a writer’s standpoint, means he did no fucking research. Which he couldn’t have, because if you had, you would have known that every Jewish child was murdered as soon as they walked through those gates.

It is a story about Jewish suffering written by a goy for the consumption of goyim. It’s disgusting. The premise itself is that this imprisoned boy becomes the playmate of a Nazi’s kid. He serves as a literal servant for this Nazi’s kid, entertaining him and being his “friend.” It is collusion with Nazis that a goyische author decided to make a fake situation with a Jewish child and then proceeded to strip away his humanity to the point where he is just a puppet or plaything for this goyische (and of Nazi parents) boy.

Shmuel becomes an object, not an actor, and how could Boyne avoid this? There are no accounts of how Jewish children acted in death camps because they were murdered.

Our lives aren’t for goyische entertainment or consumption. Anyone who likes this book is colluding with nazis and doesn’t care about Jewish people one bit. This book was shit the moment a non-Roma goy decided to write about the Holocaust.

I can’t say enough bad things about this shit novel,

It’s bad to me as an author and a Jew and as a Jewish author. It is an abomination and I hope all of Boyne’s teeth fall out, except one to give him a toothache.