The tattooist of Auschwitz /
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TextPublication details: London : Hot Key Books, 2019Description: 285 pages, 6 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471408496 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sokolov, Lale, 1916-2006 -- Fiction | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Young adult fiction. | Older Teenage Fiction. | General. DDC classification: 823.92 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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| F .M774 2009 Sashenka / | F .M834 2007 The fall / | F .M873 1982 A wild sheep chase / | F .M876 2018 The tattooist of Auschwitz / | F .M876 2019 Cilka's journey / | F .M878 1977 Song of Solomon / | F .M878 1987 Beloved / |
Originally published: London: Zaffre, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
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.