The tattooist of Auschwitz : the book review
- août 08, 2019
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Other than books or writing, I am
very curious and passionate about history. There are some periods that I found
fascinating and full of details to learn about. WW2 is one of those periods.
There is something about this war that makes it very interesting to me, there
is always something new to learn about. Unfortunately, it is also a very, very,
dark time. Therefore, when I heard about “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” based on
a true story about this man that went to the camp, I knew I had to read it. And
so I did, pretty quickly.
The story:
WW2. The Nazis are deporting Jews
from all around Europe to camps. Here, we follow Lale, who is deported to
Auschwitz. Lale is intelligent and different, is going to be the tattooist and
is going to mark thousands of other Jews with a number. A simple number that
will mark them for life. One day, he tattoos Gita, another prisoner of the
camp, he falls in love with her. What follows is a sort of traffic to have more
food, to see each other and make plans for the future. They try to have hope
despite the horrific events that occur. They witness the great horror of the
war and do their best to survive at least one more day.
We follow their love, what they do
to be together, what they have to do in order to survive. It is a war story,
but first of all, it is a love story.
My review:
Obviously, I was not expecting a
beautiful story with a happy ending. I knew it was going to be sad and
hopeless, but somehow it was different from what I expected. It was sad and
heart-breaking, but the beauty of the story was in the love story between the
protagonist and a woman in the camp.
In this book, I did not just see the
horrors of the camps and the cruelty of the Nazis. I saw the solidarity between
the prisoners, the bravery of everyone to stay alive one more day, and love.
Love between the prisoners that need one another to survive, to have hope, to
have a reason to stay alive and continue until… until something that will help
them. Love between two characters who fall in love despite being treated as
less than human, despite being deprived of what makes them human beings. Love
between groups of people that don’t know anything about each other, but will
learn and accept the other one. I saw bravery in many acts in this book,
intelligence and hope for a better future.
I’m not gonna spoil the end of this
book even if you know what happens in history. I’ll only say that this book is
a great lesson of acceptance towards other people that might be different from you. And also, a great lesson about love.
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