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Is The Tattooist of Auschwitz based on a true story?
As historical drama The Tattooist of Auschwitz starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey begins on Sky, we look at how the story is based both on a novel and real-life events
New Sky series The Tattooist of Auschwitz stars Harvey Keitel in the story of one man’s experience of the concentration camp where more than a million people were murdered during World War II. The six-part drama tells the story of Lali, a Slovakian Jew who is deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where he is made one of the Tatowierer – the tattooists who were ordered to ink identification numbers on their fellow prisoners’ arms. Harvey Keitel as Lali Sokolov and Melanie Lynskey as Heather Morris in The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Image: Martin Mlaka / Sky UK)The series also features Lali as an widowed old man, six decades later, as he meets writer Heather Morris and tells her his story, finally confronting the traumas of his time in the camp while also reliving the love he experienced in the darkest of times.
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