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Festival of lanterns, laughter By Derek Schlennstedt Rain was no barrier for fun as thousands of hills residents were drawn to the spirit and joy of the Belgrave Lantern Festival. The main street was again filled with the light of thousands of lanterns.. 'Mail' reporter Derek Schlennstedt was onhand to capture all the excitement. Andrea, Harley, Maya and Suzanne, braved the conditions. For full picture gallery, see page 7.
Love story wins By Derek Schlennstedt An extraordinary true story told to Sherbrooke author, Heather Morris, has helped her to write a bestseller that has won international acclaim. After a chance meeting, Morris recorded the story of Lale Sokolov, whose journey from prisoner to chief tattooist inside the Nazis' most notorious concentration camp haunted him into old age. Though, his story centres on falling in love with, and later marrying, a Jewish girl whose arm he tattooed with an identification number. Morris is now sharing this story through a series of local talks. It's a story that Lale guarded and reflected
on in his later years. In fact, it wasn't until he was 80-years-old that he told and entrusted his extraordinary story to Morris. Morris turned his story into a book - 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' - which details how Lale was forced into a job of tattooing the prisoners at Auschwitz; and how from that job, an incredible love story blossomed despite the cruel surrounds of Auschwitz. That book has gone on to thrust the author onto the bestseller's list both in Australia and in the UK. "I met the man who was the tattooist in Auschwitz through a friend of a friend having a coffee she told me about him and how he had recently lost his wife and that he had a story to tell," Ms Morris said.
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young girl, Gita, who he fell in love with." There have been many books about the holocaust and there will be many more. Though, Morris said that in this book, she was not telling the story of the holocaust but rather a holocaust story. "I tried to write it very simply, but it was Lale's words only that you hear ... I try to ensure that you have no idea who wrote this story because it's not about me, it's about Lale and Gita and their story," Morris said. The Sherbrooke author is also taking time to talk with readers at the Sherbrooke U3A, Upwey Seniors Community Centre on Friday 29, June, at 12.30am. Visitors are welcome.
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Over a period of years, Ms Morris and Lale became close friends. Eventually, he was prepared to tell Morris intimate details about not only his time at Auschwitz, but about the girl, Gita, whose arm he tattooed at Auschwitz and who he fell in love with. "It was very humbling, I was sitting with living history ... this man had survived a period of time which is one of the darkest periods in history, and he had not just survived but had kept other people alive," Ms Morris said. "It was daunting at the time ... there was nothing easy about sitting with a man with trembling hands and tear-filled eyes as he recalled the horrors of being in Auschwitz. "But, overwhelmingly, and in every sentence, what he spoke was the love for this