Tattooist Of Auschwitz: New screen version of tale of true love among the horrors 

Heather Morris’s hugely-successful novel is based on real-life experiences and has been adapted as a TV series with Harvey Keitel  
Tattooist Of Auschwitz: New screen version of tale of true love among the horrors 

 Jonas Nay  and Jonah Hauer-King in The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, on Sky Atlantic/Now. 

Jonah Hauer-King and Anna Prochniak portray Lali and Gita Sokolov, who found love amid the horrors of the Holocaust. The horrors of Auschwitz might seem like an unlikely backdrop for a love story. But for Lali and Gita Sokolov, amid the unspeakable suffering of the biggest Nazi concentration camp in the early 1940s, love did bloom.

The pair first laid eyes on one another when Lali, charged with the task of tattooing prisoners’ numbers onto their arms, inked Gita’s arm.

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