The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

Hi :) Today's review will be about an Holocaust book based on a true story. 

Check out my last review about the short horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe :)

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Today's book will be The Tattooist of Auschwitz by the New Zealander author Heather Morris. 

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The book narrates the true story of Lale Sokolov, born Eisenberg, a Holocaust survivor that spent 3 years in the concentration camp of Auschwitz - Birkenau.

Lale is a Jewish young man from Slovakia, from the little town of Krompachy, taken from his home and put on the train to hell. 

There, he will have the "luck", if we can say so, to be able to have a job to protect himself and the others. Being the Tattooist of the prisoners of Auschwtiz. 

While on work, his eyes fall on a young girl, another Slovakian as he, Gita Furman. 

From this encounter, their endless love story will begin. 

Lale will do everything in his power to keep her alive during these three years trapped there together. 

After that the Russians will "free" the camp, they will be separated from each other and they will start a new journey to find themselves again. 

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I really liked it. At first I wasn't attracted by the plot because it sounded like a romance set during those times. 

But I was really changed my mind about.

I appreciated the fact that at the end it included also his interview with the writer and he told some more facts about his story. 

My version of the book also included the incipit to the next book of her, Cilka's Journey, another survivor encountered by Lale and Gita. 

I can't wait to start also that one and her new book, Three Sisters :)