'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' Trailer Will Break Your Heart
The Jewish holiday of Passover, one of the most important in the Hebrew calendar, begins at sundown on Monday, April 22, 2024. The holiday comes extra late this year and is separated from Easter for once due to the vagaries of the lunar calendar (plus the need for the Jewish calendar to throw in leap years every so often since the lunar calendar is almost a fortnight shorter than a standard Earth year.) It also means the eight-day celebration will end on April 30, only hours before May 2, the day Berlin fell in 1945, and the first concentration camps were liberated, and Sky and Peacock will globally debut their adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz to honor that date.
Inspired by the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met while prisoners in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust, their story was turned into a novel of the same name by author Heather Morris, who met Lali Sokolov a few months after the passing of his wife. The true-life romance that blossomed in one of the most famous sites of the Holocaust and survived the war was one of the best-selling novels of 2017 and has been in the works as a prestige series for years since.
It's a bit ironic that the show has come to fruition now, as anti-semitism is on the rise again, while those who have forgotten their history seem doomed to repeat mistakes one would have thought we all would have learned better by now. But perhaps that's why a series like this is more important than ever to watch across the globe.
