CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is a compelling and unforgettable true story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942. When his captors discovered that he spoke several languages, he was assigned the job of a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently tattooing numbers onto the arms of incoming prisoners.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
While tattooing 18-year-old Gita Furman, he looked into her eyes and fell in love. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is the love story of Lale and Gita, a story of hope, courage and survival against the odds even in the darkest pit of humanity.
Lale hated his role as the tattooist as it made him feel like a collaborator of the Nazi war crimes though it was also a role that afforded him many benefits. It was a position of trust that gave him the freedom to move around the camps at will. He used his position to smuggle in extra food rations for those that needed it most.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the horrors of the Holocaust. That a love story begun in such a place could have a happy ending is almost unimaginable.
The book has seemingly come out of nowhere to become one of 2018’s biggest bestsellers, with translations into 17 languages and rights sold in 43 countries.