However, prisoners from several transports in 1943 had their numbers tattooed on the inner side of their left upper forearms. The site of the tattoo was changed to the outer side of the left forearm. When the metal stamp method proved impractical, a single-needle device was introduced, which pierced the outlines of the serial-number digits onto the skin. Ink was then rubbed into the bleeding wound. This allowed the whole serial number to be punched at one blow onto the prisoner's left upper chest. Originally, a special metal stamp, holding interchangeable numbers made up of needles approximately one centimeter long was used.
There was one person who would rub the.a little piece of dirty alcohol on your arm, and the other one had the.had the needle with the inkwell, and he would do the numbering. There, I was separated from my sister and mother and put into a barracks with older boys-many seemed to be twins. My arm was tattooed with the number 169061. Just before I turned 6, my family was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto. Hence, the SS authorities introduced the practice of tattooing in order to identify the bodies of registered prisoners who had died. Given the mortality rate at the camp and practice of removing clothing, there was no way to identify the bodies after the clothing was removed. As prisoners were executed or died in other ways, their clothing bearing the camp serial number was removed. Initially, the SS authorities marked prisoners who were in the infirmary or who were to be executed with their camp serial number across the chest with indelible ink.
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Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos. Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Assignment of Camp Serial Numbers and the Introduction of Tattooing
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