Jews, and many non-Jews were tattooed during the Holocaust in order to identify each individual. It was Hitler's way of keeping tabs on it's population through the selection process, (ridding Germany of undesirables like Jews, Gays, etc.). Each number had it's significant meaning, for example: 01234567. The "0" was possibly the persons RACE. Number "1" meant the person was good for LABOR. Number 2 meant the person's religion, and 3 possibly meant the person is headed for the GAS chambers. It was a simple system but needed a state-of-the-art managing mechanism. That mechanism was developed by IBM, (Industrial Business Machines). The only way to identify an individual was to check the Tattoo, on the persons arm, and compare it to the "Punch Cards", developed by the Nazis and with help from the U.S. Today, our Government is using more advanced identification for it's population. You can learn more by researching the following sites. ChoicePoint.com and RFID.com.yorgie
It was a tattoo, not a stamp. It was at Auschwitz, not at every camp. It was every prisoner, not just Jews.
They were given a prisoner number to keep track of them.
Jews had numbers on there arm because the nazi can remember all the Jews and who there were
Only those selected for work at the Auschwitz group of camps. Other camps didn't tattoo prisoners.
there are many reasons that prisons use numbers instead of names. Jews were not excluded from this, they had to wear numbers like any other inmate
It was so the German soldiers in the camps could keep a record of them.
Each person had a different number tattooed on them.
A tattoo is permanent. Even if the person was dead and disfigured, as long as that tattoo was visible, they could be "accounted for". Just part of the Nazi record keeping system.
Several methods of identifying prisoners were used in concentration camps, with tattoos only being used at Auschwitz. There was no set name for these tattoos.
All prisoners who were forced labourers at the Auschwitz complex of camps had a number tattooed on them. Tattooed numbers were not used at other camps.
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.
Well they would for starters instead of shaving their heads for their hair they ripped it from their scalps in clumps for things like dolls ect. They also took dead bodies skins and used them as book covers and such. They also took the ashes of the dead and put them into soaps and made the people use them. For some they would make people hold children in their arms while they shot the children. They would also spread typhoid fever in contaminated water or food and let them die or send them back to their ghettos so they could spread the disease(s). All in all it was a very terrible time in history, and they probably did many more things than just this that could be 10x worse. Hope this helped you.
My sources tell me that production years are letter coded in the number letter combo stamped on the bottom of the reciever. Codes start with A = which equals 1949. I just picked one up stamped M and the listing said it was made in 1960. So I would guess that yours is circa 1959.
There was no specific name for these; they were just identifying tattoos. They could be called serial number tattoos, identity tattoos, or other things.
Several methods of identifying prisoners were used in concentration camps, with tattoos only being used at Auschwitz. There was no set name for these tattoos.
So you will know it was manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
remove barrel and serial # will be stamped on top of receiver on left
You can find it stamped under the forarm on the under side of the barrel and on the forarm its self
It was more than just a tattoo. It was an identification number so that the Nazi's could tell who was who. That number replaced their names. On each persons arms they tattooed a letter telling what religion they were. (J for Jew, G for Gypsy, etc) Then there would be different numbers after that which would stand for other things.
That is the model number the serial number is stamped behind the hammer
No published sn data.
No.Pioneer Arms Company no longer is in operation.
The life was harsh, very hard, you could think of an army camp overworking you. If you watch war movies, you might be able to see a concentration camp, you know, with the sticks between the arms?
German concentration camps (death camps) are primarily secluded places within Germany during World War II. Hitler ordered that "extermination" of people that didn't fit into his idea of what a "perfect" human should be....primarily targeting Jews. The Nazis rounded up Jews like cattle, tattooed numbers on their arms so they could be kept track of, and locked in concentration camps. During their time there, they were starved, beaten, and forced to work until death, often times constructing the very ovens that their bodies were eventually burned in, sometimes when they were still alive but unable to perform a task. This whole act made up the holocaust. Careful when you google it, pretty graphic pictures.
All prisoners who were forced labourers at the Auschwitz complex of camps had a number tattooed on them. Tattooed numbers were not used at other camps.