“A Child in Striped Pyjamas” is set to make its world premiere in London.

The opera, which tells the story of a Jewish Child and a German Child who are separated by barbed wire and form a friendship, will open on Jan. 11 and 12 at The Cockpit Theatre, London.

Both performances will be preceded by a live Q&A.

This operatic adaptation of John Boyne’s poignant Holocaust fable was written by Noah Max as a way to bring the symbolic story to new audiences while anti-Semitism rises across the world. Max said, “it demonstrates the relentlessly organized barbarity of which humanity is capable.”

Boyne’s 2006 novel was first adapted in 2008 into a Miramax film that starred Asa Butterfield and David Thewlis.