29 - El Tatuador De Auschwitz - Heather Morris
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If you suddenly find yourself in a Nazi concentration camp, what would you do? Do everything possible to survive? Help others? And what if to do those two things you have to collaborate with the enemy? These are the questions that Leo Sokolov, the tattoo artist of Auschwitz, made in this novel based on real life. Welcome everyone to this new episode of the podcast of Bibliotequeando, arroba bibliotequeando en las redes, les habla Ricardo Lugo, hoy les traigo un libro hermoso pero al mismo tiempo pesado, como son todos los libros del holocausto, cuando hablo pesado hablo del peso emocional de estas historias, y como siempre habla de la inteligencia, el sacrificio, el amor, y son lecciones muy importantes.
of the Ashwitz tattoo artist, but what I like about this book is that it also talks about the moral debate of whether the main character of the book did the right thing or not. The story is basically that Leal Sokoloff becomes the main tattoo artist of the Ashwitz concentration camp. Remember, or those who don't know, each person had an identification number and the Nazis tattooed that number on the prisoner's arm. A way of, to a certain extent, carrying a kind of account of the prisoners and at the same time taking away their humanity. It was just a number and that's it. The message of the novel for me is that you have to be strong in moments of crisis and see how to get out of the most difficult moments.
Leo Sokoloff, who is the main character, always had small goals during the novel to keep him alive. We will go into details soon, but at the same time, to be able to survive, to be able to help others, he had to ask himself very strong moral questions. I collaborate, in quotes, with the Nazis. I'm going to work for them. I'm being part of the system, tattooing the prisoners. If I say no, I'll die. But if I tattoo, I can help others in a certain way, and we'll see how. All that debate is a journey that the book takes you, and the book was written by Heather Morris just four years ago, in 2018, and I'm not going to tell much about how she knows this story because I don't want to ruin the ending, but I think it's a very beautiful, very strong, and very unique story.
You're going to realize while we do this summary that what happened to Leo Sokolov, this tattoo artist from Auschwitz, I don't think anyone else did during this time. So let's start with the story that starts in April 1942, which is the date on which Leo Sokolov is on his way as a prisoner to the concentration camp, but he does not even know that he is going to Auschwitz, he does not even know that he is a prisoner, and much less does he know that he is going to become the tattoo artist of this place. The reason why this is so is important to add the historical context. Before Hitler came to power, sadly, anti-Semitism was already a feeling in Europe. Of course, Hitler made it worse and took advantage of all this, but there were many countries, including the Slavs, were countries that hated the Jews, or let's say so, there were certain fractions of society that did not consider the Jews as, let's say, grateful people.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–5:31
2
What happened to Lale Sokolov when he arrived at Auschwitz?
5:31–14:35
3
What moral dilemmas did Lale face as a tattoo artist in Auschwitz?
14:35–19:31
4
How did Lale Sokolov manage to survive in the concentration camp?
19:31–34:12
5
What role did love play in Lale's life during his time in Auschwitz?
34:12–57:35
6
How did Lale build a smuggling network in the concentration camp?
57:35–1:17:47
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