Sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz branded 'lurid and titillating' by survivor's stepson

George Kovach also called Heather Morris’s Cilka’s Journey, which is based on his stepmother Cecilia’s life, ‘appalling and extremely hurtful’

The stepson of a Slovakian woman who survived Auschwitz, only to be sent to a Soviet gulag, has branded the novelist Heather Morris’s “lurid and titillating” version of his stepmother’s story “appalling and extremely hurtful”.

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