It is the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov who fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. SBS conversation with their son Gary Sokolov was recorded, when the book ...
the only son of the ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’, Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov, (sometimes spelled Lale) was visiting the notorious death camp for the first time in memory of his late parents.
The TV show is based Heather Morris' novel of the same name that follows Holocaust survivor Lale Sokolov's path to survival .