Gita’s tattoo happens to be Lali’s handiwork ... it’s based on the memories of an actual Holocaust survivor, Lali Sokolov, who met Gita while they were both imprisoned at Auschwitz.

Five years after Heather Morris’s 2017 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz topped the New York Times’ paperback fiction list, a limited series of the same name will stream on Peacock starting ...

(JTA) — A Holocaust romance, sparked when a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau is forced to tattoo a number on another ... Slovakian Jewish prisoners — Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman — who really ...

(JTA) — The story of real Auschwitz survivor Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was forced to tattoo numbers on his fellow inmates and implausibly fell in love with a girl he was tattooing ...

New Zealand novelist Heather Morris brought Lali Sokolov (sometimes spelled Lale) and Gita's story to life in the book, which has now been published in 47 languages. She learned the details ...

Heather Morris is a New Zealand-born author, who was an amateur writer when she first met Lali Sokolov in 2003. Over the following three years, Lali and Heather developed a friendship and Lali shared ...