I've read lots of books about the Holocaust and the suffering imposed on so many people, so when I saw The Tattooist of Auschwitz it went straight onto my "must-read" list. It was quite different to the other Holocaust books I'd read as it was written from the perspective of a "privaleged" prisoner, for most of the story, Lale, the camp tattooist who had the awful job of scribing the numbers onto the prisoners arms. Right from the start Lale has a positivity that was amazing and heartbreaking at the same time and all the way through the book he tries to keep this going, even when he sees sights that no one should ever see and he endures desperate times despite having perks of his job for alot of his time imprisoned. There is a love story running through the book as Lale meets the love of his life whilst in the Camp but at the same time he has to deal with his guilt that he has a bed whilst watching people who'd become family to him being led away to their deaths. To say that I really enjoyed this book is wrong as no-one should really "enjoy" reading about this hideous time in history, however The Tattooist of Auschwitz was harrowing, heartbreaking and yet uplifting at the same time and I would definately recommend it.