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Assesses the accuracy of The Tattooist of Auschwitz's historical framework against the archival resources of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: acknowledges that the work is fiction, but also notes that the account of an Auschwitz tattooist is unique, and argues for the need for a documentary approach to unique resources around the Holocaust.