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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM DIRECTED BY AMERICA FERRERA Instant New
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Daisy Days of Spring
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Pamela Rose Gardner Scee; Illustrated by Jaime Scee Montanaro; Photographs by Shayna Cook
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For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the true love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.
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