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36<br />
A VIEW FROM THE BOOK NOOK<br />
Chris Fraser<br />
The Book Nook —<br />
“A Lending Library”<br />
We are open Monday to<br />
Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm<br />
* * * *<br />
I have a truly amazing book to<br />
recommend to you called “The<br />
Tattooist of Auschwitz” by<br />
Heather Morris.<br />
This is the story of one man’s<br />
determination to survive and save<br />
as many people as he can.<br />
In April, 1942, Lale Sokolov is<br />
transported to the concentration<br />
camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau.<br />
After being processed with hundreds<br />
of others, his captors discover<br />
he speaks several languages<br />
which will be useful to them.<br />
He is sent to work with Pepan<br />
who trains him to be a tattooist,<br />
marking the arms of other prisoners<br />
with a number they can be<br />
identified by. Lale does not want<br />
to hurt anyone, but doing this job<br />
will give him a room to sleep and<br />
more rations, rather than being in a<br />
block with many other men.<br />
One day he is asked to tattoo<br />
numbers on women, so he tries to<br />
be very gentle and one time looks<br />
up into the eyes of a woman, Gita,<br />
and soon after that he finds her<br />
again and so begins their friendship.<br />
Lale takes great risks talking to<br />
workers who come into the camp<br />
to construct more buildings, and<br />
with Gita and her friends’ help,<br />
they bring him jewellery and money<br />
taken from the prisoners and he<br />
uses that to buy food that the<br />
workers bring to him. He hides the<br />
food and takes it to the men in his<br />
old block to help them survive, as<br />
well as sharing the food with the<br />
girls that are helping him.<br />
Although Lale witnesses terrible<br />
atrocities, he vows to survive and<br />
walk out of this dreadful place,<br />
helping as many people as he can<br />
to survive along the way.<br />
This is a truly remarkable story<br />
of bravery and compassion and<br />
through it all, somehow, Lale manages<br />
to find love under these most<br />
terrible conditions. I hope you will<br />
enjoy reading this book as much as<br />
I did.<br />
Happy Reading,<br />
Your bookworm and Librarian,<br />
Chris Fraser<br />
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T S - M <strong>2019</strong> — V. 43, N. 7
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