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Post by wellway on Jan 8, 2018 9:11:32 GMT
BBC article covering a new book about to be released called "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris. www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42568390"For more than 50 years, Lale Sokolov lived with a secret - one born in the horrors of wartime Europe, in a place that witnessed some of the worst of man's inhumanity to man.
It would not be shared until he was in his 80s, thousands of miles from that place.
Lale had been the Tattooist of Auschwitz. "
ETA The article includes wartime pictures, some are haunting/distressing.
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Post by Peamac on Jan 8, 2018 16:01:14 GMT
TFS! It sounds like an amazing book!  |
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Post by lemondrop on Jan 8, 2018 16:02:27 GMT
TFS! Very interesting.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 8, 2018 17:08:57 GMT
TFS!
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jan 8, 2018 17:16:44 GMT
Wow that sounds like an amazing book in the most awful way. My Poppa was in the regiment that liberated Auschwitz. He always got very emotional when trying to talk about that experience. The soldiers didn’t know what the Nazis were doing when they came on the camp. Can you imagine?!?
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Post by freeatlast on Jan 8, 2018 17:33:02 GMT
Thanks for posting this. Looks like I'll be adding this book to my reading list.
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Post by SweetTea on Jan 8, 2018 19:21:01 GMT
TFS!! Just shared with my husband too. He’s Jewish and an armature tattooist. I’m sure he’ll find it interesting as well.
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Post by librarylady on Jan 8, 2018 22:36:13 GMT
Thanks.
I have shared the info.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jan 8, 2018 23:16:21 GMT
TFS.
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Post by Just T on Jan 9, 2018 0:09:44 GMT
I can't wait to read this book! I'm sure I will download it onto my Kindle the day it is available.  I have a weird fascination with WWII historical novels, and I have read quite a few in the past couple of years. I go in spurts where I read several in a row, then I have to read some lighter "stuff" for a while. This one should be really good. |
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Post by Just T on Jan 9, 2018 0:14:26 GMT
Wow that sounds like an amazing book in the most awful way. My Poppa was in the regiment that liberated Auschwitz. He always got very emotional when trying to talk about that experience. The soldiers didn’t know what the Nazis were doing when they came on the camp. Can you imagine?!? No, I cannot even imagine what the soldiers who liberated those camps thought and went through. Many years ago, I worked with a lady who had been at Auschwitz when she was a young girl. She didn't talk much about it at all, except we all knew that she was the only member of her immediate family who had survived the Holocaust and had then been brought to the US after the war by a distant relative. Seeing that tattoo on her arm was the most haunting thing for me as a young adult at the time. |
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Post by cade387 on Jan 9, 2018 0:35:00 GMT
He is from the area of Slovakia that I travel for work. It is amazing to see the impact WWII and communism have had on that part of the world.
It is an amazing story. I usually don't read non-fiction but this sounds like an important story to read. We must never forget.
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Post by birukitty on Jan 9, 2018 2:41:35 GMT
This book came up in one of my reading groups on Facebook yesterday. I've added it to my TBR list on Goodreads. I'm looking forward to reading it very much. I've been reading WWII history and specifically about the Holocaust since I was 18 when that wonderful TV series "Holocaust" came out in 1978 with James Woods, Joseph Bottoms and a very young Meryl Streep. Does anyone remember it? It came on TV over a few nights. I bought the book afterward and the book is even better-I still have it.
As most of you know my mother is German and was born in 1939 to a single mother in Eastern Germany. After the war that part of Germany was annexed to Poland. Once I learned about the Holocaust in grade school I came running home to ask my mother if it was true and she said it was. Then I asked her why didn't my grandmother do anything to help the Jews. I felt so guilty being Christian and 1/2 German. It haunted me most of my life. My mother told me as a single mother my grandmother did what she could to protect herself and her young child and if she'd done anything she'd been thrown in the camps too and what would have happened to her little girl (my mother). I still felt guilty.
This past May I got a chance to visit Poland and I planned a trip to Auschwitz for myself. I booked an early morning ticket (before the tours start) and then an English tour for 11:00 am. I of course took my camera planning to take a lot of photos that day and while I was there I prayed and asked forgiveness. It was a very moving, emotional experience. I got there at 8:00 am and left at 5:30 pm so I spent a long time there. It was a dream of mine to go there for many years of my life, which I know sounds strange but after reading so many books about this place-well I must confess it was. Like seeing Anne Frank's house if that makes any sense. I felt so much better after I went. It is an amazing museum and if anyone else has any interest in going I highly encourage you to do so.
Sorry for the tangent.
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Post by annabella on Jan 9, 2018 2:52:34 GMT
Sounds interesting!
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Post by librarylady on Jan 9, 2018 2:59:37 GMT
birukitty I understand the desire to visit the place. I visited Dachau and found it very moving. I don't have the personal connection you do, but still it is history.
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Post by birukitty on Jan 9, 2018 4:22:35 GMT
birukitty I understand the desire to visit the place. I visited Dachau and found it very moving. I don't have the personal connection you do, but still it is history. Thank you so much for your comment. I flew to Germany and stayed in Munich as my first stop in Germany. Dachau was one of the choices as a site to see but after my long day in Auschwitz I just couldn't do it. Maybe next time I am there. Even without the personal connection as you say it is history. I think these places are so important for all of us to see and witness. People must think so too-there were some crowds at Auschwitz midday on the day I was there and even though it was May 10th the day I went it was 39 degrees F, a very cold day. There were people from many different places all over the world and tours were offered in many different languages. I imagine in summer it must be even more crowded. |
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Post by brynn on Jan 9, 2018 6:08:52 GMT
Wow that sounds like an amazing book in the most awful way. My Poppa was in the regiment that liberated Auschwitz. He always got very emotional when trying to talk about that experience. The soldiers didn’t know what the Nazis were doing when they came on the camp. Can you imagine?!? My uncle's experience exactly--he was haunted by it. |
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Post by librarylady on Jan 9, 2018 13:46:56 GMT
birukitty I understand the desire to visit the place. I visited Dachau and found it very moving. I don't have the personal connection you do, but still it is history. Thank you so much for your comment. I flew to Germany and stayed in Munich as my first stop in Germany. Dachau was one of the choices as a site to see but after my long day in Auschwitz I just couldn't do it. Maybe next time I am there. Even without the personal connection as you say it is history. I think these places are so important for all of us to see and witness. People must think so too-there were some crowds at Auschwitz midday on the day I was there and even though it was May 10th the day I went it was 39 degrees F, a very cold day. There were people from many different places all over the world and tours were offered in many different languages. I imagine in summer it must be even more crowded. If you saw Auschwitz, I would guess Dachau would not be as dramatic as it was for someone seeing all that for the first time. Dachau is much smaller. There were no guided tours. The "welcome" center has exhibits/photos and then a visitor is left to their own to walk the camp. No one under age 12 allowed. |
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jan 9, 2018 13:56:48 GMT
Wow that sounds like an amazing book in the most awful way. My Poppa was in the regiment that liberated Auschwitz. He always got very emotional when trying to talk about that experience. The soldiers didn’t know what the Nazis were doing when they came on the camp. Can you imagine?!? Wow! That must have been so difficult! I'm sure you are so proud of your Poppa. |
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jan 9, 2018 13:58:44 GMT
I cannot even imaging what these people went through. I visited Dachau in 2016 and it was so sobering. So somber. I have always had a fascination with the psyche of those who participated in these atrocities.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jan 9, 2018 13:59:40 GMT
Thank you so much for your comment. I flew to Germany and stayed in Munich as my first stop in Germany. Dachau was one of the choices as a site to see but after my long day in Auschwitz I just couldn't do it. Maybe next time I am there. Even without the personal connection as you say it is history. I think these places are so important for all of us to see and witness. People must think so too-there were some crowds at Auschwitz midday on the day I was there and even though it was May 10th the day I went it was 39 degrees F, a very cold day. There were people from many different places all over the world and tours were offered in many different languages. I imagine in summer it must be even more crowded. If you saw Auschwitz, I would guess Dachau would not be as dramatic as it was for someone seeing all that for the first time. Dachau is much smaller. There were no guided tours. The "welcome" center has exhibits/photos and then a visitor is left to their own to walk the camp. No one under age 12 allowed. I was there in 2016. I saw quite a few young children in Dachau. |
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Post by sueg on Jan 9, 2018 14:08:12 GMT
Thank you so much for your comment. I flew to Germany and stayed in Munich as my first stop in Germany. Dachau was one of the choices as a site to see but after my long day in Auschwitz I just couldn't do it. Maybe next time I am there. Even without the personal connection as you say it is history. I think these places are so important for all of us to see and witness. People must think so too-there were some crowds at Auschwitz midday on the day I was there and even though it was May 10th the day I went it was 39 degrees F, a very cold day. There were people from many different places all over the world and tours were offered in many different languages. I imagine in summer it must be even more crowded. If you saw Auschwitz, I would guess Dachau would not be as dramatic as it was for someone seeing all that for the first time. Dachau is much smaller. There were no guided tours. The "welcome" center has exhibits/photos and then a visitor is left to their own to walk the camp. No one under age 12 allowed. There are guided tours at Dachau, but you don't have to do one. I've been there a few times when different family members have visited us and wanted to go, but have never done one - we get the audio guide which is excellent. Under 12s are not forbidden - it is more a recommendation that it is really not suitable for younger children. There is a film in an auditorium that I think they don't allow under 14s into. My older son visited Dachau with me on his first visit to Munich, then on a later trip went to Poland and Auschwitz - he said there is just no comparison - size, artifacts, intensity of experience - everything was so much worse at Auschwitz. |
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