01653cam a2200361 i 4500 367933115 TxAuBib 20190111120000.0 180828s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2018146165 9780062870674 006287067X (OCoLC)1050112178 TxAuBib rda Morris, Heather. The tattooist of Auschwitz / Heather Morris. First U.S. edition. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] 262, 11 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowirer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. One day 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. 20190111. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Jews Poland Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Jewish fiction.