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The tattooist of Auschwitz / Heather Morris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Zaffre, 2018.Description: 270 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781785763670 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F MOR 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.4
Summary: This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - literally scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AR BL 5.1 R16937N0499

This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - literally scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.

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