Nepal, Feb. 22 -- It is 1942, and der Fuhrer has just begun sending out shocks of terror across the world. Like thousands of others, young and happy Lale is cruelly wrenched apart from his comfortable life with a loving family in Slovakia. He is stuffed into a death train that will take him to a place soon to be reviled as one of the most notorious in history-Auschwitz.

It is in Auschwitz, the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps, that Heather Morris sets 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' a novel-like narration based on a true story. The horrors begin from a tolerable stink in a stuffy carriage and escalate menacingly, within 30 pages, to people being swatted dead easier than flies.

Terrified, we peer along with Lale as naked men a...