A new movie that will be released next month shows the Holocaust of the Jews during World War II from a unique perspective.

It's called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

The film tells the story of a German boy, the son of a Nazi officer, who befriends a Jewish boy living behind the barbed wire fence of the infamous Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.

Author John Boyne penned the novel the movie was based upon. Monday, he joined Newswatch to discuss the book. Click play to watch the interview.