1 real historical location · Poland
Based on Heather Morris's bestselling novel about Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jewish prisoner who tattooed numbers onto his fellow inmates at Auschwitz and fell in love with one of them. A love story that sustained two people through three years of the Holocaust.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
Slovak Jew Lale Sokolov is forced to work as the Tätowierer — tattooing identification numbers onto incoming prisoners — and falls in love with Gita Furman i...
Lale Sokolov (born Ludwig Eisenberg) served as Tätowierer at Auschwitz from April 1942, tattooing over 30,000 prisoners. He and Gita survived and married in Bratislava in 1945. Sokolov told his story to author Heather...
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