When people were taken to concentration camps, they were marked by the Nazis with tattoos, placed on the inside of their right arms. The tattoos were numbers, meant to be a form of identification.
Jews were required to wear a large yellow Star of David on their chests, and also forced to live in separaate areas of the city ot town (called the ghetto).
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Jews selected for work at the Auschwitz group of camps were registered and tattooed. This was not done at other camps and they were not branded.
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Yes. There are still a number of Holocaust survivors with numbers tattoed into their flesh. However, as time marches on, the day is not far off when there will be no more Holocaust survivors alive to bear witness. I personally have met some Holocaust survivors with numbers tattooed in their arm.
The Holocaust is the name we give to the German attempted genocide of the Jews.
The official figure is that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Jews selected for work at the Auschwitz group of camps were registered and tattooed. This was not done at other camps and they were not branded.
People were tattooed because it was a number that Jews were forced to wear under Hitler's rule.
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To identify which group of Jews they came from.
Yes. There are still a number of Holocaust survivors with numbers tattoed into their flesh. However, as time marches on, the day is not far off when there will be no more Holocaust survivors alive to bear witness. I personally have met some Holocaust survivors with numbers tattooed in their arm.
The Jews targeted in the Holocaust were civilians.
there would not have been the Holocaust without the Jews.
Any tattooed Jewish person can be buried in a Jewish cemetery. This is just a myth.
In the Holocaust Jews were killed simply for being Jews, in fact simply for existing.
The Holocaust is the name we give to the German attempted genocide of the Jews.
Jews who were chosen to work were tattooed at Auschwitz. See Related Links below.