01879cam a2200325 4500 370840703 TxAuBib 20190220120000.0 180905s2018||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780062860941 0062860941 (OCoLC)1050447639 TxAuBib Morris, Heather. The tattooist of Auschwitz / Heather Morris. First HarperLuxe edition. New York, NY : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] 312 pages ; 23 cm. A novel. "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"--Publisher. 20190220. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Fiction. Tattoo artists Fiction. Jews Poland Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction.