4 real historical locations · Poland, Slovakia
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 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland, Slovakia.
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...
View location →Lale Sokolov arrives at Auschwitz I and is assigned as Tätowierer, tattooing prisoner numbers on new arrivals — a role that brings both privilege and moral t...
Auschwitz I was the original camp, opened in 1940. Lale Sokolov (Ludwig Eisenberg) served as Tätowierer from April 1942. His story was documented by Heather Morris.
View location →Gita Furman is imprisoned in the women's section of Birkenau. Lale finds reasons to visit and slip her food, the pair falling in love across the divide of th...
Gita Furman (Gisela Fuhrmannova) was tattooed prisoner number 4562. She and Lale both survived and married in Bratislava in 1945, remaining together until her death in 2003.
View location →The city Lale and Gita both return to after liberation. They reunite, marry, and build a post-war life here — the survival story that frames the entire narra...
Lale and Gita married in Bratislava in October 1945. They emigrated to Australia in 1949 where Lale told his story to Heather Morris before his death in 2006.
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