A-17360 was Elli Friedmann's tattoo number in I Have Lived A Thousand Years.
Auschwitz Concentration Camp - About 50 acres (0.078125 square miles).
It was their prisoner number.
Well their was never an exact same number of people dying at Auschwitz daily. There were days when no one was killed, Auschwitz was in existance for over a year before mass killings started, and there were days where 30 000 died.
From early 1942 onwards, there were three camps on the main site at Auschwitz and the number of sub-camps (off the main site) grew to 45. The main site included the extermination camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II).
Arithmetically increasing.
Auschwitz.
Auschwitz Concentration Camp - About 50 acres (0.078125 square miles).
In the Auschwitz camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Aushwitz III, prisoners had their inmate number tattoo'd on them. It was a way of marking them like cattle, and it ensured their number would always be correct and visible.
There isn't an exact number but about 1,500 people were killed at Auschwitz in 1940.
It was their prisoner number.
Well their was never an exact same number of people dying at Auschwitz daily. There were days when no one was killed, Auschwitz was in existance for over a year before mass killings started, and there were days where 30 000 died.
From early 1942 onwards, there were three camps on the main site at Auschwitz and the number of sub-camps (off the main site) grew to 45. The main site included the extermination camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II).
Arithmetically increasing.
The number of people in the Auschwitz complex at any one time was relatively small by comparison with the total number killed there. According to Wikipedia, there were between 13,000 and 16,000 prisoners in Auschwitz at one time. At least 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz during the holocaust, most of them shortly after arrival.
The tattoos consisted of a letter and a number.
Elie Wiesel's tattoo number at Auschwitz was A-7713.
It is the prisoner number that he had at Auschwitz.