Imaginative Diary Entires - the Boy in Striped Pyjamas

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Friday 14thJuly 1944 It has been 3 weeks since my son Bruno disappeared from ‘Out-With’. After sending out multiple search parties to find him, one soldier returned to me today with news that may help me find out where Bruno disappeared. The soldier had found Bruno’s clothes in the mud by the fence surrounding the concentration camp. He had also noticed that the bottom of the fence was not secured properly and that when it was lifted, there was a gap just big enough for a young boy. Finding Bruno’s clothes in the forest around the concentration camp has made me think that maybe Bruno is lost in the forest or he was attacked by a snake or another predator so he could be still alive just lost somewhere in the wilderness. I’m keeping my hopes up that Bruno will return to ‘Out-With’ even though he never exactly liked this place. Wednesday 19th July 1944 After finding Bruno’s clothes last week, I ordered more search parties to be formed and sent out to scout the area within 3 miles from where his clothes were found in hope that this may help me find Bruno but my attempts were feeble and we had no luck. So after a few days of searching and not finding anything I’ve decided to call off the search parties due to what a friend of mine from the concentration camp had shown me. He came by my house at three in the afternoon to give me the horrible news. It turns out that the unsecure part of the fence had been used by Bruno to enter the camp for an unknown reason and since his head was shaved and he was not wearing his clothes he must’ve been mistaken for a Jew. Due to these reasons he was taken into the gas chamber and was murdered, along with the other Jews. Wednesday 2nd August 1944 Two weeks after Bruno was confirmed dead I had a funeral organised to be held in Berlin and for Bruno to be buried in the Royal cemetery that he could see from the small window on the fifth

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