By Heather Morris, A love story between two Holocaust survivors based on a true story The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on a true story about a Jewish man, Lale Sokolov, who is put to work as a tattooist at Auschwitz, the infamous German concentration camp. There, he meets Gita, a woman who is waiting to be branded with her identifying serial number, and he falls in love with her. The story that follows is one about love, luck, survival and finding hope…