<p>The Tattooist Of Auschwitz</p>
<p>I tattooed a number on her arm.</p>
<p>She tattooed her name on my heart.</p>
<p>In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl.</p>
<p>For Lale – a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer – it was love at first sight.</p>
<p>And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.</p>
<p>So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.</p>
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