Seventy years after he turned thirteen in a concentration camp, a man joins his beloved grandson in the Jewish ritual of coming of age when they are bar mitzvahed together.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...

"Nadie sale vivo de Auschwitz. Mala, reclusa 19880, lo entendió en el momento en que bajó del tren de ganado para dirigirse a las profundidades del infierno. Como intérprete de las SS, Mala usó su posición para salvar tantas vidas como pudo. Edward, recluso 531, es un veterano del campo y un preso político. Aunque, con la cabeza rapada y el uniforme a rayas, se parezca a todos lo demás, es un luchador de la Resistencia en la clandestinidad....