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Bruno moves to Auschwitz because his dad starts a new job.
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Bruno built a tire swing because he did not have any friends in his new home. This was the only thing he had for fun.
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Bruno notices several children on the other side of the fence and a few days later he meets Shmuel on the other side of the fence.
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Shmuel is in Brunos kitchen cleaning glasses for a party. The boys were caught talking and Bruno denies Shmuel is his friend.
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A few days later Bruno apologizes to Shmuel.
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The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers.
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Bruno's mother did not like what was happening to people in Auschwitz and wanted to go back home.
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Shmuel asks Bruno for help finding his father. He decides he will help him and go into the camp.
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After Bruno gets into the camp, German soldiers come in and tell them to march. They go into a gas chamber, thinking they are taking showers. They died holding hands.
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When allies started bombing,approximately 410,000 German civilians were killed by Allied air raids. From July 1944 to January 1945, an average of 13,536 people were killed every month.
