HONESDALE, PA — The documentary film “Blue Tattoo: Dina’s Story, Joe’s Song” will be shown at 3 p.m. on January 24 at The Cooperage, with an introduction by Joe Crookston.

At first glance, Dina Rosenberg Jacobson and Joe Crookston seemed like unlikely collaborators. When they were introduced in 2008, the 86-year-old Holocaust survivor with white hair and a tattooed left forearm and the youthful Ithaca, NY singer/songwriter came from different worlds. But Jacobson’s story inspired Crookston to write a song about her surviving despite incredible odds. That song, “Blue Tattoo” inspired the film.

Jacobson’s parents were shot to death after being betrayed by neighbors. Five siblings and a brother-in-law were killed after they fled to Hungary. She ended up in the Auschwitz Birkenau camp in Poland, where she was tattooed with the number 82779. Although she lost her name and her family, she did not lose her soul.

“Nobody was a person there,” Jacobson said years later. “Everyone was thinking every minute you were next to go to the gas chamber. You weren’t thinking to live. You were thinking to die.”

The suggested donation is $10 in advance, $15 at the door. To reserve your seat, call 570/253-2020. See also In My Humble Opinion on page 17.