- Bruno to his Grandmother right before going on his final adventure (imagine she was still alive)
Dear Grandma,
I have found this really awesome friend named Shmuel and we are about to go on an epic adventure on his side of his fence not my side. We are going to go and find his father who has gone missing for some reason. Do you have any idea why his father might have gone missing? Well since we are going on this adventure tomorrow you won't be able to get this letter by then. Anyway, how is life in Berlin? Out here in Outwith it is usually very cold colder than Berlin is normally. The people on Shmuel's side of the fence wear these really weird Pyjama's with blue and white stripes on them. I have got my head shaved recently to be able to sneak onto his side of the fence and go exploring in their camp. I hope you and Grandpa are well and enjoying Berlin considering I am having fun here with Shmuel, even though we never play with each other and Gretel is STILL a hopeless case so I have given up upon reasoning with her.
Love you Grandson Bruno
- Pavel to his family regarding living in the camp and working for Bruno's family.
Dear My Family,
Life out here in Auschwitz is hard and tiring. People are dying and being killed nearly every day, I hope that I will not die with them because there bodies are buried in mass graves or burnt to a crisp leaving nothing but ashes. I am not being killed because I work as a waiter. The man of then house is the Commandant of the whole Concentration Camp. There in his house is his Wife, his Daughter and Son. The wife is a very beautiful lady who treats me with respect which is really rare now days, the daughter treats me like the other Nazis do which I am not Surprised about considering her fathers position in the Nazi structure and ranks. The son though is a completely opposite case to all of them, he is so young that he understands nothing of what is going on around him and is completely innocent of what is actually happening while the rest of the family knows about it but doesn't seem to care or take note like a hobo on the street they see it but don't really give what happens to that hobo if he/she dies or not. Lieutenant Kotler is the worst and he isn't even family he is just a meagre lieutenant in the Wehrmacht not really having rank at all and he struts around the house as if he owns the whole place. The boy Bruno though is really nice to me, he fell off his swing he made and I fixed it up and the mother instead of giving me a thrashing or telling Lieutenant Kotler she said nothing but told me to say it was her, which is really nice of her to do for me though. The Father treats me as expected and the daughter treats me like the father which is unsurprising though. Life may be hard but I am living through it as best as I can for the situation I am in.
Love Pavel.
