The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum will show “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 14, in the Visitors Center Auditorium. The film showing is free and open to the public.

This fourth film in the “Righteous Cause” film series, explores the horror of a World War II extermination camp through the eyes of two eight year-old boys, one the son of the camp's Nazi commandant, the other a Jewish prisoner. The boys' forbidden friendship has startling and unexpected consequences. The film is rated PG-13 for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust.

The film series is in conjunction with the Holocaust-related exhibit "Eisenhower and the Righteous Cause: The Liberation of Europe." This exhibit will remain on display in the temporary gallery of the Museum until Dec. 31, 2010.

Reservations are appreciated and can be made on Facebook or by calling 785.263.6700. For more information on the exhibit or film series, visit the web site at www.eisenhower.archives.gov.