[1] She later moved with her family to the town of Pirongia, and graduated from Te Awamutu High School.
[10] Eventually, Morris was persuaded by her sister-In-law to rewrite the screenplay as a novel, which she titled The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
[12] In 2024, the book was adapted into the miniseries The Tattooist of Auschwitz, with Harvey Keitel as Lale Sokolov and Melanie Lynskey as Morris.
[13] After her release from the camp she was arrested and sent to the Gulag in Russia where she met her husband Ivan and fled to Canada.
Kovacova's stepson, George Kovach from California, sued Morris upon the publication of the book, because according to him the story is "hurtful" and blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction.
[13][15][6] Her latest book from 2023, Sisters Under the Rising Sun is about women in the Japanese labor camps in Indonesia during World War II.