The Tattooist of Auschwitz adaptation has been given the ‘Hallmark Holocaust’ treatment

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Anna Prochniak as Gita and Jonah Hauer-King as Lali in 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz'. Photo: Martin Mlaka/Sky UK

Dónal Lynch

When the late Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz, saw Holocaust, the first major television production about the fate of Jews during World War II (starring a young Meryl Streep, incidentally) he dismissed it as mere “soap opera”.

The sheer mind-bending horror of the Nazi camps could not be reflected in a television drama, he said. The Holocaust was “the ultimate mystery, the ultimate event, never to be comprehended or transmitted”.