Even though the Auschwitz Museum recommended against it, the book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has been turned into an opera.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was written by Irish author John Boyne and published in 2006. Bruno, a German youngster of eight, is unaware that his father is the kommandant of a concentration camp during World War II. As Bruno's father works, he and his family are dispatched to live with him. Frustrated by his isolation, Bruno leaves the camp's perimeter in search of companionship and finds up befriending Shmuel, the "kid in the ....