Au revoir, les enfants (French: Goodbye children) is a novel written by Louis Malle in 1987 in the form of a screenplay, and became a film in the same year. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ...

The novel mirrors the childhood of the author. It is about a young boy named Julien Quentin, who goes to a boarding school during World War II, and befriends a boy named Jean Bonnet. It is later learned that Bonnet is Jewish, and is hiding from the German soldiers at the school. At the end of the book, Bonnet is captured by German soldiers and taken to a concentration camp and killed. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...