Book Review- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
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...