Pre-Owned TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ

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.-----'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