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@article{193040,
        author = {M. Jaya Durga and Dr. S. Ayyappa Raja},
        title = {Treatment of Human Rights Violations in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas of John Boyne and Mark Herman},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {3777-3782},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=193040},
        abstract = {Post-truth refers to people’s dependence on emotional and personal beliefs rather than objective facts and evidence. The Holocaust is known as Shoah in Hebrew and Nazi Germany killed nearly six million Jews roughly two third of Europe’s Jewish population during the World War II. The Nazis followed the path of their leader Hitler and portrayed Jews as the enemies of Germany who were responsible for the loss of World War I owing to their racism. John Boyne is an Irish novelist and he has written six novels, two novellas and a collection of short stories.  His novels are published over fifty languages. His novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006 and it was adapted into a film by the Director, Mark Herman in 2008 by the same name. This novel explores the themes of innocence, ignorance, and the devastating consequences of the Holocaust from a young boy’s perspective. It revolves around the viewpoint of a nine year old boy named, Bruno whose father is the commandant of out-with which is known as Auschwitz, in charge of killing Jews. Bruno meets a boy named Shmuel, who is in a concentration camp. Bruno and Shmuel form a deep friendship. Bruno offers him food whenever he meets Shmuel, who feels hungry. They share stories and experiences despite the barrier of fence between them. Bruno meets a tragic end in the gas chamber with his Jewish friend Shmuel, who has earlier offered a help to him to find his father in the camp while wearing the striped pyjamas. In both the novel and film, people see the Holocaust from the perspective of the Germans instead of Jewish prisoners. German soldiers want to protect the fatherland by eliminating the Jews as a duty to create a better future. Some German citizens are against the idea of the holocaust but they are not allowed to pass their opinion publicly. At the end of the novel, the death of Bruno overshadows that of Shmuel and other Jews but from the objective point of view, one can see how the Jews have suffered from the violation of human rights.  The paper analyses the violation of human rights, crimes against humanity, the right to life, freedom from discrimination, liberty and dignity during the holocaust by the Nazis against the Jews.},
        keywords = {Post-truth, Nazi, Jews, Germany, Racial Discrimination, Innocence, Ignorance, Loss of Humanity, Holocaust, and Human Rights.},
        month = {February},
        }