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May 2, 2024 · Witek-Malicka confirms that Lali Sokolov was a real tattooist and prisoner at Auschwitz in Poland, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp. He arrived on April 23, 1942,...
Jan 25, 2024 · Ron gave the tattoo artist a photo of his father’s number, seeking to replicate it as closely as possible. He wanted people to ask about it, to keep the Holocaust in living memory. In Ron’s...
- A Tattoo Meant A Chance 'To See The Sun Come Up'
- Accusations of Collaboration
- Life and Love in Auschwitz
- The Truth Behind The Fiction
- Leaving Auschwitz
- Furman's Death March
- Sharing His Testimony
Arriving in Auschwitz, people were split into two lines: those fit to work, and those to be immediately killed. The workers were sent to Sokolov, clutching a scrap of paper with their camp serial number. He would scratch the numbers into their arm with a needle, rubbing green ink in the bleeding wound. He knew that anyone "who didn't come to get ta...
When Morris met Sokolov to discuss telling his story, he had one requirement: the writer could not be Jewish. He feared accusations of collaboration, and worried a Jewish writer would have preconceptions about what was right and wrong, Morris said. He asked what she knew about the Holocaust. "My small-town New Zealand education really hadn't given ...
When Sokolov met Furman, "an 18-year-old girl dressed in rags and her head shaven, he knew in that second that he could never love another," Morris said. Furman, a Slovakian Jew who bore the number 34902, was being tattooed for the second time — her first one had faded. Three months at Auschwitz-Birkenau left her with little hope. "She saw no reaso...
Morris's publisher wanted her to write a memoir, but there was one problem: she never met Furman. "If I was to write it as a memoir or a biography … I could not write dialogue. I could not weave this beautiful love story into all those facts that we know were going on in that camp at the time," she said. Morris chose instead to write a semi-fiction...
In late January 1945, Furman was sent on a death march. "He watched her go, with all the other girls and women who were in Birkenau, taken out in one day," Morris said. Days later, Sokolov was transferred to a camp in Austria, just a few hours before the Russians liberated Auschwitz. After another transfer to a camp near Vienna, he decided to escap...
Furman had marched through Polish winter for two days before she and two others made a decision. Morris described their thought process: "We can keep marching, and as we fall we'll be shot, or we can run ... and if we make it, we make it. If we get shot in the back, what does it matter?" They ran, and made it to a village where they found shelter. ...
Sokolov and Furman married. In the years that followed, they left Europe for Australia. They settled in Melbourne's Jewish community, raising a family. Their friends knew their story, but Furman didn't like to talk about it. Furman died in 2003, aged 78. Sokolov decided it was time to tell their story, hoping his testimony would stop history repeat...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. [1] The story is based on the real lives of Sokolov and his wife, Gita Furman.
- Heather Morris
- January 11, 2018
- Historical
- Bonnier Books UK Limited
Jan 25, 2024 · Now, some descendants of Holocaust survivors are replicating the Auschwitz tattoo of their parent or grandparent on their own bodies. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we...
Apr 22, 2024 · Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events. By Shira Li Bartov April 22, 2024 10:00 am. Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as...
Jan 8, 2018 · For more than 50 years, Lale Sokolov lived with a secret - one born in the horrors of wartime Europe, in a place that witnessed some of the worst of man's inhumanity to man. It would not be shared...
