~In the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno and his family have moved into a new home that is not nearly as big or as glamorous as his old house in Berlin. The new house is at a place called Outwith. We learned in class that it is actually Auschwitz, the death/labor camp. Event though our book is a work of fiction, Auschwitz was a real place. This is a picture of the REAL Commandant's house at Auschwitz. Her really lived here. In real life, he did not have a son named Bruno.