For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.
It's a triumph.'
Jill Mansell. . .
I recommend it unreservedly'
Greame Simsion '
A moving and ultimately uplifting story of love, loyalties and friendship amidst the horrors of war . . . ----- '
Extraordinary - moving, confronting and uplifting .
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz.
And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight.
Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl.
He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
She tattooed her name on my heart.
I tattooed a number on her arm.
For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances
