These books held my attention and were hard to put down!! The Journey Summary & Analysis Next. Read more. Almost 75 years ago, Olga Horak emerged from the ashes of Europe to start a new life in Australia as the sole survivor of her entire family. Jona Laks could smell the burning flesh as she walked towards death at the Auschwitz crematorium. Chapter 2. Cilka survived Auschwitz and then was sent to a labour camp for collaborating and sleeping with the enemy. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. She keeps their memory alive by telling her story. On the Bottom. Themes and Colors Key LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Survival in Auschwitz, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Cilka's Journey is a fictionalized story that is inspired by what Heather Morris discovered about real-life Cilka who is a character in The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The story is based on the real lives of Sokolov and his wife, Gita Furman. Dehumanization and Resistance. More than 75 years later, aged 90, she has returned … Cilka’s Journey and Tattooist of Auschwitz were so well written and so horrifying what the Germans and the Russians did to human beings. Amidst all the horror were so many that risked their life to help someone else. Survival in Auschwitz: Chapter 1. The Educational Institute of Scotland. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. Now Morris’s sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka’s Journey, has been denounced by George Kovach, stepson of Cecilia Kovachova, upon whose story the novel is based. 46 Moray Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BH +44 (0)131 225 6244 enquiries@eis.org.uk @eisunion eisunion