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For readers of Schindler´s List , The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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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.

I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.

In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. 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.

Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.

So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.

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´ Extraordinary - moving, confronting and uplifting . . . I recommend it unreservedly ´ Greame Simsion

´A moving and ultimately uplifting story of love, loyalties and friendship amidst the horrors of war . . . It´s a triumph .´ Jill Mansell

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Jenny Valentish (journalist) chooses The Tattooist of Auschwitz as one of her reads of 2018 The Guardian

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