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Tymostchuk, Tamara.

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Bruno´s diary entries

May 6th 1944

Dear diary,

Today, when I was exploring I met a boy who had such a strange name, I can’t remember it well ...… Shmel… Shh.. Shmmu… Shmuel!!! He was wearing stripped pyjamas, like all these people that I see from my window. This place looks like a farm or something similar, but I don’t really know why they are dressed like that. At the place there were a lot of children, but he was alone .There was no one playing with him, he told me he used to fight a lot when he played with them. He asked me if had something to eat, I think he was very hungry, he was starving. He was 8 years old, like me, we can be very good friends and play together. But he plays there. Would he like to play with me? He had a number, like a game, but he told me that it wasn’t a game that it was his number. I don’t have a number, I can’t understand why, I want to play with him and explore together. I want to go again and talk with Shmuel. But if I leave my