She has no idea where she puts her feet. When she rings at the door of Lale Sokolov, Heather Morris only knows that this old man has just lost his wife, the great love of his life, and that he wants, to relate his story, to address a non-Jewish . This man, brilliantly interpreted by Harvey Keitel in “The tattoo artist of Auschwitz”, survived hell. Deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) in 1942, he was responsible for tattooing the prisoners when they arrived at the camp. There he meets Gita. In this world of infinite darkness, the young Slovak becomes her light and, years later, his wife.
“I would have liked that he is there to tell you his story,” repeats the author of the book “The tattoo artist of Auschwitz” – published in 2017 and sold to 14 million copies around the world -, including The series is drawn into six episodes broadcast from this Wednesday evening (9:10 p.m.) on M 6, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the Camps.