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The Tattooist of Auschwitz Book Review

By Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee
October 31, 2022
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz, a novel written by Heather Morris, tells the humbling tale of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. The novel is an international bestseller, and after reading Lale Sokolov’s story, I feel compelled to honor this book.

Based on Sokolov’s real life at Auschwitz, the novel blends his harrowing experiences in a concentration camp and the undying hope he discovers in his community and himself. In reading this book, I was reminded of how important it is to remember history. Even in the darkest days of humankind. Morris captures Sokolov’s daily life with exceptional detail.

Imprisoned for several years, Sokolov faces the peak of barbarism at Auschwitz but risks his life on multiple accounts to bring food into the camp for his community. Because of his ability to speak multiple languages, he is also tasked with tattooing the arms of incoming prisoners. It is here that Sokolov meets Gita Furman, the woman with whom he falls in love and eventually marries in the post-war days.

What amazed me about Sokolov’s life and Morris’s ability to capture the sentiments so well was the perpetual optimism of a man with the odds stacked against him. Throughout the novel, Sokolov is mindful of the surrounding atrocities but never lets his spirit die. The novel is a testament both to the brilliance of the human soul and to love. The story also serves as a reminder to readers that we must never let the horrors of this history become a daily reality again.

The novel gives such clairvoyance into a time many struggle to make sense of while highlighting the strength and perseverance of the imprisoned characters. I admire this approach, respecting Morris’s choice to say that love, forgiveness, and happiness prevail.

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Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee

As an antiquarian, Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee grew up knowing she’d incorporate history into her career, studying ancient civilizations and the physical, cerebral, and social jewels they left behind. During her studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Du Mont-Greenlee earned her bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning, Du Mont- Greenlee realized her passion for architecture and urban forms, physical spaces that bridge cultures and enable sociality. After working several years in public and private sector urban planning, Du Mont-Greenlee returned to academia, earning her master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Goldsmiths, she wrote anthropological ethnographies including the following topics: how sense of place authenticity relays to mental experiences in restaurants, and an auto-ethnographic piece on the South Orange County suburbs that moves between architecture and people and sets an analogy between the making of homes and the making of housewives, informed by classic feminist theory. To better understand the politics of place, place authenticity, historical remembrance through spatial awareness, and architecture’s construction of sociality, she spent a year and a half researching urban trends during the coronavirus pandemic in London, England. Du Mont- Greenlee compared her social findings that society underwent gentrification of the mind amid the pandemic to the gentrification of urban places, including Shoreditch, London. In doing so, she found that anything—even longstanding architectural bastions once revered for their ingenuity could be erased or forgotten. Much like the books of old burned for their revolutionary messages. While not sculpted from brick and mortar or concrete or wood, the written word weathers time as do the architectural wonders of the world. Both are fragile, capable of crumbling in a moment, but both transcend time and remind humankind of history. Touched equally by the lives of collapsed civilizations as those breathing alongside her today, Du Mont-Greenlee believes the marvels humans create reflect the soul of humankind. These ideas inspire the non-fiction articles she writes for Coffee House Writers and her fiction manuscript Edge of Worlds.

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