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“She is just surviving, Cilka has often thought. There is no one way to do it.” This other read from Heather Morris is the testimony of a classic combination of fiction based on actual events in the lives of the liberated prisoners aka Holocaust survivors. This novel is a kind of sequel to the author's first book titled The Tattooist of Auschwitz . The book begins with the end of Cilka Klein’s liberation after her dreadful stay at Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. This momentary freedom turned into an event of horror, because of her “relationship” with the Nazi leader; the Russian government tries Cilka, who was found guilty of collaboration with Nazis and sent to Vortuka in Siberia to a work camp. The book details the challenges faced by her compelling fight to stay alive and endure all tortures, humiliation, disgust, and abuse. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. The “good times” begin when she is taken under the wing of a fe...

Lale Sokolov with Gita Furman - Images from internet What transpired at Auschwitz or any concentration camp during World War II is chastely sickening, vicious, brutalized, and deeply heart-breaking.  Nevertheless, every time I read or hear the stories of survivors, I become fascinated with the catalogs of these prisoners who managed to forgive, discover love, looked for happiness, and somehow dwelled a full, prosperous life subsequently. This Historical Fiction book titled "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is based on the mostly true story of Lale Sokolov and Gita Furman, two Slovakian Jews and Holocaust survivors.  It is a story of two ordinary people living in an extraordinary time, compelled of their freedom, their dignity, their homes, and even their names (which are replaced by numbers), and how they withstood Auschwitz concentration camp. In April 1942, Lale Sokolov (prisoner number 32407), a Slovakian Jew, was forcibly sent to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau...