Review The Tattooist Of Auschwitz By Heather Morris

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Hi there!

Today I’m here to talk about a serious book. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a book that doesn’t need much of an introduction. Heather Morris interviewed the principal character and wrote his story to be a movie. However, she changed her mind and wrote this book, so this is a book based on a true story and, as you can guess, a very heartbreaking but hopeful story.

It is a strong theme so I don’t recommend it to sensitive people.

It is 1942. Lale Sokolov arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau and when the Germans notice that he speaks more languages than the rest, they put him as the Tätowierer, the German’s word to tattooist. There he meets Gita, with whom he falls in love. In the worst place, they live their love story and survive during one of the most horrifying things/ time that ever happened.

This is the most complicated book I’ve ever read. Despite having only two hundred-ish  pages, it took me a week and some days to finish. Never such a small book took me so long to read. Any distraction was welcome. I had to stop a lot of times because the tears wouldn’t let me see the words.

It wouldn’t be a complicated reading if it wasn’t this topic. It is hard to read knowing that something so cruel happened to thousands of people and that more than half didn’t survive to tell their story.

Of all the books I read about the Holocaust, none made as much of an impact as this one. There’s no right words coming out of me, because, even though this is a story with a happy ending, it makes any person emotional.

If you want to, read it because it is a part of our history and we should learn with the past. Tell me if you read it, tell me your thoughts.

See you next time.