THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
Streaming: Neon from Monday, May 6; Screening: SoHo,Wednesdays from May 8, 9.30pm
Having started life as afilm screenplay before becoming a bestselling novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz has now become a television series, one in which the book’s Melbourne-based New Zealand author Heather Morris becomes a character. Played by Melanie Lynskey, Morris appears in scenes depicting the three years in the early 2000s she spent recording the life story of Auschwitz survivor Lale Sokolov, who is portrayed by Harvey Keitel.
Sokolov’s recollections about his time in the camp and his duties as the tattooist inscribing prisoner numbers on the arms of new arrivals, including his future wife Gisela “Gita” Fuhrmannova, became
