The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A harrowing tale of survival. Similar to the graphic novel Maus, The Tattooist of Auschwitz highlights that surviving the death camps was a combination of luck and determination. While Lale does things - things he's not always proud of - to survive, he is also "lucky" that he has skills useful to the guards. You do wonder how many resourceful "Lales" there were, equally determined to survive, but persished because they didn't have anything the guards required.
Any book about the Holocaust is disturbing but what I found particularly disturbing is the implication that the guards knew what they were doing was wrong but didn't care. Not that's a huge surprise - it's just brings it home that the SS weren't necessarily people with warped ideology; they were people who enjoyed inflicting misery on others,
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