"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....

"Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tattooed and they're ordered to the maternity hut. Holding an innocent new-born baby, Ana knows the fate of so many are in her hands, and vows to do everything she can to save them. When two guards in their...

While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his "31321" tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts--until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects Murray Scheinberg's stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Polish...

"Osnovannyĭ na realʹnykh sobytii͡akh zhizni Li͡udviga (Lale) Sokolova, roman Khezer Morris i͡avli͡aetsi͡a svidetelʹstvom chelovecheskogo dukha i sily li͡ubvi, sposobnoĭ rast͡svetatʹ dazhe v samykh temnykh mestakh. I trudno predstavitʹ bolee temnoe mesto, chem kont͡sentrat͡sionnyĭ lagerʹ Osvent͡sim/Birkenau. V 1942 godu Lale, kak i drugikh slovat͡skikh evreev, otpravli͡ai͡ut v Osvent͡sim. Okazavshisʹ tam, on, blagodari͡a tomu,...

Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda – and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap – Henryk’s secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her father’s past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women’s camp concealed among her mother’s things. Within its seams are dozens...