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Today the 27th January marks the annual United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019 and Alex Dafner reports on an ABC News report on the infamous history of Nazism in Australia, which surprisingly, has its beginnings soon after the birth of the hateful ideology in Germany in 1920.

Nitza Lowenstein, SBS Radio,  in conversation with Heather Morris, the author of, “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”,  the book that became 2018’s publishing sensation and has been one of the year’s bestselling novels worldwide. 
Nitza spoke to Heather Morris a year ago, when the book was first published and followed up with another interview, to find out the secret success of the book, as the book has captured the hearts and minds of thousands around the world, was translated to many languages and has stayed on top with the best-selling books in many countries.
 Some criticized the book and said that it contains numerous errors.
 Nitza also asked the author about the authenticity of the true history. It is the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov who fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp, This tale of hope & courage is based on interviews that were conducted by Heather Morris with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity
What’s most extraordinary about this unlikely love story is that it’s mostly true.Sokolov was a tattooist at Auschwitz and he met Gita Furman there. The couple married after liberation and moved to Melbourne, where they raised a son, Gary.

This interview with Heather Morris was recorded when her book "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" was first published at the beginning of 2018. We broadcast it again a year later as the book became one the year's bestselling novels worldwide.
Please listen to this original interview and to the second interview conducted in January 2019.
For more than 50 years Lale Sokolov lived with a secret in Melbourne.
He had been the tattooist of Auschwitz who tattooed thousands of prisoners.
When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, they were selected either for forced labor or immediate execution.
Their heads were shaved, their belongings taken and became numbers, which were tattooed on their arms.
The numbers on the forearms have become one of the most recognizable symbols of the Holocaust.
Author Heather Morris, after spending 3 years recording Lale's story before he died in 2006, published his story, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which is based on his incredible story of survival and impossible love at the concentration camp.
It is unthinkable love story. Lale met the love of his life, Gita while tattooing her arms in Auschwitz.
The story of how he found her after the war, seemed to be taken out of a Hollywood movie.

The book, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ has been one of the year’s bestselling novels. 
It is the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov who fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. 
SBS conversation with their son Gary Sokolov was recorded, when the book was first published at the beginning of 2018. Gary told SBS a year later, in January 2019, that he has been receiving hundreds of letters and emails from all over the world, from people that were overwhelmed by his parents’ story. 
Gary the only child of Lele and Gita Sokolov, was considered a miracle child, after his mother was told that she will never have children after the horrific medical experiments on her in Auschwitz. Gary admires his parents’ optimism & courage. It is still difficult for him to confront and read in details, in chronological order the suffering of his parents in the concentration camps. He also tried 3 times to visit Auschwitz and could not bring himself to cross the border to Poland. It is important to him that his family story was published for the next generations.  

The book, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ has been one of the year’s bestselling novels. 
It is the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov who fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. 
SBS conversation with their son Gary Sokolov was recorded, when the book was first published at the beginning of 2018. Gary told SBS a year later, in January 2019, that he has been receiving hundreds of letters and emails from all over the world, from people that were overwhelmed by his parents’ story. 
Gary the only child of Lele and Gita Sokolov, was considered a miracle child, after his mother was told that she will never have children after the horrific medical experiments on her in Auschwitz. Gary admires his parents’ optimism & courage. It is still difficult for him to confront and read in details, in chronological order the suffering of his parents in the concentration camps. He also tried 3 times to visit Auschwitz and could not bring himself to cross the border to Poland. It is important to him that his family story was published for the next generations.  

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The international Jewish LGBT+ community, will be holding its 25th World. Congress in Sydney, for the first time, in March 2019, bringing a global focus to Sydney and providing a space for ideas, networking and good fun. The Keynote speaker - joining a host of local and international presenters - is Australia’s newly-elected, Independent Member of Parliament, DR KERRYN PHELPS. Find out more from the Conference convener, Dayenu’s Kim Gotlieb about it.

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