02080cam a2200349 i 4500 545763206 TxAuBib 180205s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062870674 hbk. 006287067X hbk. 9780062797155 pbk. 0062797158 pbk. (OCoLC)8361 YDX eng YDX NBO rda TxAuBib rda Morris, Heather, (Screenwriter), Tattooist of Auschwitz. The Tattooist of Auschwitz : a Novel / Heather Morris. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] 262, 11 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her"--Dust jacket flap. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction Jews. Tattoo artists Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Jews Fiction Poland. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction.