The True Story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

In the darkest place, love found a way to survive.

Lale Sokolov, a young Slovak Jew deported to Auschwitz in 1942 survives by becoming one of the camp's tattooist, and meets Gita Furman while he is tattooing her number— it is love at first sight. Risking his own life, Lale uses his position to try to ensure their survival in the midst of horror. Reunited and married after the liberation of the camps, they flee Soviet Czechoslovakia for Australia, where they live in peace. 
This documentary takes us back to this dark chapter in history. Told through archives of Lale and Gita’s filmed testimonies, archive footage, interviews with historians and evocative scenes shot in Auschwitz, the film sheds light on their incredible love story while revisiting the major stages of the Holocaust and the workings of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration camp system built by the Third Reich and a symbol of Nazi abomination. Lale and Gita Sokolov’s story stands as a powerful tribute to human endurance.

Lale Sokolov's extraordinary story is fascinating, firstly brought to light in the international bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz by New Zealander author Heather Morris, it has recently been adapted into a TV series.