Lale sacrifices himself for his Jewish family during the holocaust. He goes on a cattle truck to a concentration camp in Slovakia. There they become the slaves of the Nazi military. Lale (as you could predict) becomes the tattooist and tattoos numbers on the prisoners’ arms. Lale becomes the leader of his block and as a result gets extra rations which he shares with other prisoners. He falls for one of the female prisoners and builds a dream with her. That they will live beyond the reign of Hitler and they will have a place where they can make love wherever, whenever they want. This book is a wonderful story that shows that life during Hitler’s reign had some upsides; Gita and Lale would never have never have met if it wasn’t for Hitler. In saying that, Adolf Hitler was a horrible dictator who discriminatively killed and tortured numerous people, saying their race and culture was a crime.