The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Young Adult edition – including new foreword and Q+A by the author plus further additional material
The incredible bestselling true story. For readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Diary of Anne Frank
The Story
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. When Lale, given the job of tattooing the prisoners, saw Gita waiting in line, it was love at first sight. In that moment he determined to keep them both alive. This is a story of hope and of courage.
- Publisher: Hot Key Books; 1st edition (23 May 2019)
- Language: English
- Paperback
- 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1471408493
- ISBN-13: 978-1471408496
- Reading age: 14 years and up
- Dimensions: 12.9cm x 2.2cm x 19.8cm
About the author;
Born in New Zealand, Heather Morris is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope. In 2003, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who ‘might just have a story worth telling’. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Lale’s story formed the basis for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the follow-up novel, Cilka’s Journey. In 2021 she published the phenomenal conclusion to the Tattooist trilogy, Three Sisters, after being asked to tell the story of three Holocaust survivors who knew Lale from their time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Together, her novels have sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Her exceptional new novel, Sisters Under the Rising Sun, was published in 2023 bringing another heart-wrenching true story to life with experiences of women in Japanese POW camps, how they found bravery in sisterhood and the hope to survive in music.
