Auschwitz

This strength and dedication comes from her mother, a Holocaust survivor who was captured as part of the Resistance in World War II. She was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later at Ravensbrück in Germany.

As the Germans held roll call while Levi and his fellow Italian Jews waited for deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, he wrote how the German officer asked, “Wieviel Stück?”

Dr Ruth never saw her parents after leaving for Switzerland and believed they were killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz - a Nazi death camp.

She never made a concerted effort to find out how they died but believed that they perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Why do you think it’s important that audiences watch “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”?