The Tattooist of Auschwitz — 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 in the camp.
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 Morris late in his life; she published the novel in 2018 after he died, aged 93, in 2003.