I have not read the Tattooist of Auschwitz, but after reading CILKA’S JOURNEY, Tattooist of Auschwitz must be a sequel. If you’ve read Sophie’s Choice, you’ll have a understanding of the choices young Jewish women were forced to make in concentration camps to survive. Cilka became the mistress of a camp officer as well as overseeing the cabin where women were placed before going to the gas chambers. After the war, she is punished more by the Russians who send her to a Siberian camp as further punishment for conspiring with an enemy. Excellent story about the resilience of people and how simple things can bring hope and happiness. If nothing else, the reader leaves with the understanding of how difficult choices can be to make when you are facing death.