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2015., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Add Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Malcolm is a hairdresser who is dealing with his partner's worsening Alzheimer's and Alison is the salon receptionist, and the story's ingenue. Both are shaken by a brutal event that leaves Alison diving into the history of the Holocaust, and Malcolm even more unable to recover from the loss of his lover. Both are plagued by remembering what others would rather forget: for Malcolm it is personal history, and for Alison, social history, which all of the sudden, has become personal.
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Ã2018., Harper Call No: Fic Mor Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a TÃntowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her"--Dust jacket flap.
