Maus: A Survivor's Tale and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I thought Helen's presentation on Maus was very engrossing. I've always been very interested in World War II and anything that relates to the Nazi. What the Nazi did was gruesome and unhumane, but what can I say, anything that is violent or involves fights, murders, etc. always catches our generation's attention. I mean, have you seen Hansel and Gretel? It's a bit creepy, given that 2 siblings were abandoned in a forest and ended up going in a witch's house then killed the witch, but still, it's used to be bedtime story for kids. Now they've made it into an action movie with blood, guns, knives, and more guns.
Ok, back to Maus. It's kind of cool to have this period of time depicted in form of comic, where the Nazis are portraited as cats, the Jewish as mices. The drawing itself is fantastic.

And what's important is, it reminds me of this movie that I've seen a few years back, called "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas".

It is mainly about the friendship of 2 little boys, Bruno who is the son of a commandant at a concentration camp, and Shmuel who is a Jewish boy in that concentrated camp. So long story short, they become friends after Bruno sees Shmuel at the fence of the camp, as he's overjoyed knowing there's the present of another boy who is around his age.

At the end of the movie, Bruno crosses the fence of the camp, changes his clothes into a set of striped pajamas as that of Shmuel, and goes into the camp with Shmuel.

They get mixed up with a large group of grown ups, and ends up in a gas chamber (where, as I remember, Bruno thinks they're getting a shower). It ends with Bruno's parents crying outside the chamber in the rain, holding his clothes.

Here's te trailer of the movie.