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2018 | Biography | History & Politics | Religion
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.
Heather Morris
(Author)
| Edition | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781760403171 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781785763649 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781785763670 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780062870674 |
| Language | English |
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AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated
Aug 1, 2019
Amy Christmas (171 KP) rated
Jan 16, 2018
You follow Lale a Slovakian Jew and in 1942 each family is required to gove over a worker for Labour camps. In hopes to keep his family safe Lale goes to Prague where he's put in a cattle car and shipped to birkaneau.
The story is sad and hopeful and shows the raw need for survival but also that in times like that we can all pull together.
While the story was good and lovely to read about the writing was bland and off-putting at times. I struggled to get through the entire book and put it down for ages at a time because I just wasn't enamoured by the writing as others were.
If you can't look past bad writing and appreciate the story this book is ok for you, but there are better accounts of that period of history waiting to be read.
