Specific images of the Holocaust have endlessly punctuated the film and TV landscape: The barbed wire of a concentration camp. Naked bodies rendered to skin and bone, tossed in discarded piles. Gleeful abuse and random killings by evil Nazis.

The mini-series is based on a true story, but some historians are not happy about its depiction of the Holocaust

Something as simple as a framing device elevates “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” – which stands out from a host of recent Holocaust tales – thanks in part to Harvey Keitel, starring as the elderly Lale Sokolov who recounts his remarkable story of life in a concentration camp to an unlikely interviewer.

As it lays out the story of Jewish prisoners Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman, the six-part drama, which premieres Thursday on Peacock, wisely doesn’t gloss over any of the pain and torture in the camp.

An 80something Holocaust survivor relays his memories of Auschwitz, including his romance with a fellow prisoner, in a miniseries adapted from Heather Morris' 2018 bestseller.