Staff Picks: The Tattooist of Auschwitz 1
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, is a Historical Fiction novel. It is a book about the take over of the Germans and specifically a family that was taken to a concentration camp and how or if they survived. The jobs that were assigned to them helped and hurt them in their survival or demise. It gave a depiction of life in the concentration camp based on true lives and events.
The story is sobering and sad but yet something that needs to be told. I cried several times reading it, but it also showed people with the will to live and help others to get through the worst times that anyone could ever imagine. It is not for the faint of heart. It shows how we can come back from the brink of death and despair and have a willingness to live and thrive and help others to do the same. It is an amazing story based on a real life person who comes out of this horrific time strong and resilient.
Anyone that loves stories on the human experience, history and human rights should read this story, just have kleenex nearby.
Recommended by Jen Gardner