The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, 2018
A Slovakian Jew survives Auschwitz by tattooing numbers on new arrivals and finds love in the camp. A novel built on a real survivor's testimony.
Heather Morris
Heather Morris met the real Lale Sokolov in 2003; he dictated his story to her over three years, and she first wrote it as a screenplay.
Feels like memory, hope and grief.
What a man promises himself when survival is not enough.
Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it. Books by Heather Morris
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