Memorial says it found the story of Cilka, partly told in Heather Morris’s original novel and set to be continued in Cilka’s Journey, ‘highly questionable’
The Auschwitz Memorial has voiced concern after Heather Morris announced a sequel to her bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which will use the real life of a woman sent to the concentration camp as a child as “inspiration”.
A hit book around the world, The Tattooist of Auschwitz tells the story of the Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov, and how he fell in love with a woman he tattooed at the camp. Sokolov, who died in 2006, told Morris his story, which she turned it into the novel that has now sold more than 400,000 copies in the UK alone.
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