http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Family/Media/book-reviews/b/boy-in-striped-pajamas.aspx

 The Boy inthe Striped Pajamas was an amazing story about a general's son who befriends an imprisoned Jewish boy through the fence of a concentration camp. It shows the holding of the Jews in the eyes of an innocent child as he comes to the realization of the true horror in it. The boys are both so excepting of one another because they lack the corruption that the adults suffer from during that time period. To them they dont care what race the other is they only care if the other one is nice or not.

This reminds me of The Diary of A Young Girl because both people are dealing with the Holocaust and the fear of losing someone they love or dying. Both books show how much the people suffernig from the Holocaust needs friendship and  to have that companion that cares for them. In The Diary of A Young Girl here friend was a young Jewish boy named Peter who was also in hiding with her.

The view of how friendship help theses people through hard times makes me wonder if friendship can save someones life by saving there spirit. For example I've noticed that when one older person in a relationship dies the other dies soon after. My mother says that it's from a broken heart. So that makes me wonder, can someone actually die from a broken heart.