{"id":50693,"date":"2024-05-02T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2034645"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:52:39","slug":"the-tattooist-of-auschwitz-star-its-an-almost-unbelievable-story","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz-star-its-an-almost-unbelievable-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tattooist of Auschwitz star: \u2018It\u2019s an almost unbelievable story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melanie Lynskey stars as Heather Morris, the author of the book on which the drama is based. <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 02 May 2024 at 18:00 PM<\/p>

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz\u2019s Melanie Lynskey has described it as an \u201calmost unbelievable story\u201d.<\/p>\n

The six-part Sky Atlantic drama is based on Heather Morris\u2019s best-selling book of the same name<\/a> and inspired by the memories of Holocaust survivor Lali Sokolov, who fell in love with fellow Auschwitz prisoner Gita Fuhrmannova.<\/p>\n

Against the odds, they both survived their ordeal, going on to marry and have a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey fell in love in this place where it seems impossible to think that could happen,\u201d added Lynskey, who plays Morris in The Tattooist of Auschwitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s such a beautiful thing to me that love is capable of<\/span> surviving even in the worst possible circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov as Anna Pr\u00f3chniak as Gita Furman in The Tattooist of Auschwitz.<\/span><\/figcaption> Martin Mlaka \/ Sky UK<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Morris met Lali not long after Gita had died when he was in his 80s and living in Melbourne. Despite not being a published author at that point, or Jewish, he entrusted her to tell his story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think maybe he wanted her to have the distance,\u201d said Lynskey of Morris\u2019s heritage. \u201cAnd I think he just really grew to trust her, like really, really trust her. And there is something about her, she\u2019s such an incredible listener, she\u2019s very present, so I could imagine her being a good person to tell your life story to.<\/p>\n

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