The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A Novel
by Heather Morris
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in World War 2 and Fiction.
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at AuschwitzBirkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lal...
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