I want to write a story about the Nazi camps

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I don't think it's mean, unless you are willing to make every detail line up with facts you shouldn't write about such a sensitive topic.

Well I don't think The boy in the striped pajamas was based on a story of Holocaust survivors. One or two facts in that story are a little skewed apparently, but I love that book and the movie, and so do a lot of people I know.

But if it's wrong for a nobody like me to write a story on the Holocaust then I won't do it. I'll stick to writing the story about my cat that I started.

I think you are better off talking to Holocaust survivors. It's a matter of seeking them out on forums. Also trying looking them up too and see if you can contact any of them, some of them are speakers about it.

Also the Jewish people didn't all of a sudden get lured out of their home. It started out with being segregated and having curfews and having to wear a star on their chest. Then they got lured into a ghetto, they all had to leave their homes and move to an area that was more run down and live there. They couldn't leave that spot either. Then they all of a sudden were told they had to pack their bags and bring what they can only take in their hands and they were taken to a train station and put on a train. None of them knew where they were going. Some of them obviously knew something bad was happening because they went into hiding and some would have their kids go live with other people posing them as their own children. And of course, before any of this got any worse, they fled EU and went off to the US as refugees because they knew something bad was going to happen and they couldn't trust Hitler.

You can also read memoir books written by survivors. It's a matter of reading books on this.

I would say do a search on books on amazon.co.uk as i am sure people have written their stories there.

Perhaps even visit some of the historical sites. There are a number around the world.
Even some in the Channel Islands.

There is a massive network of WW2 bunkers in Jersey, and the other channel islands.
Alderney also had a small concentration camp there, where some of the workers who built the bunkers
were sent (from what i can remember, not sure if those details are completely accurate. Although i do know there
was definitely a concentration camp of sorts there).

As for survivors, i think that there can't be too many left. Although there may be museums in some of these places.
I know there is several exhibits at some of the museums in Jersey that house survivors stories of the occupation, from an islanders perspective. These weren't people who were sent to the concentration camps however, but people who
were living in the island when the German Soldiers and their Nazi leaders showed up and took over.

I also know one or two people who are children of some of the soldiers who occupied Jersey, who had children.
One of my friends who also has Autism, his uncle was in the SS, and his father just a normal German soldier.

I am not a neo nazi or sympathiser. He isn't either, although he is quiet interested in WW2, i guess to understand where he comes from. He isn't into hurting innocent people based on race though thank goodness.

Lastly, i recently did read about Hans Asperger and his work at one of the WW2 nazi hospitals.
Hans Asperger is portrayed as the saviour of kids with autism, however, apparently records and witness testimony from the time tell a different story, in that quiet a high number of kids with autism did end up being given involuntary lethal injections and then their deaths were written off as "Pneumonia" etc.

Apparently the parents were told that their kids needed to go to hospital for treatment, to cure them.
But at some point, some of the parents started to realise that the kids weren't coming home and tried to
rescue the kids, asking for them to be returned but without results.

So.. in many ways i am pleased that we no longer have Hans Asperger's name to our disorder.
After all, he did also classify us as "Autistic sociopaths"... Yere. thanks Doctor. I think i shall ask for a second opinion.

Why do you have to write from the perspective of a Jewish person? Jews represent the biggest number of people killed. But there were several other groups targeted before the Jews. Can you related more from personal experience as a disabled person or as a Jewish person for starters?

I've gone off the idea now, sorry.

I've now started writing a story about a girl with Asperger's that starts secondary school, and is awkward with fitting in and making friends. She is as non-stereotypical as possible, as her symptoms are complex. She is chatty, idealistic and has a sense of humour.