![]() ![]() In fact, it was the portrayal of Cilka's concentration camp ordeal in Morris' first book that was the major concern of the Auschwitz Memorial. "Although it weaves together facts and reportage with the experiences of women survivors of the Holocaust, and the experiences of women sent to the Soviet Gulag system at the end of the Second World War, it is a novel and does not represent the entire facts of Cilka's life." Loading. In her author's note, Morris prepares readers for what's ahead: Melbourne author Heather Morris is getting ready for the publication of the sequel to her global best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, and she's again bracing for controversy. The new book "imagines" Cilka's story through her time in the concentration camp and her subsequent jailing by the Russians in a brutal gulag. Readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz would remember another character, Cilka Klein, who was only 16 when she entered Auschwitz, saving Lale's life. ![]() Lale Sokolov and his future wife Gita in their earlier years. ![]()
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