Tattoos
Question:
How did they put the numbers on the Jews wrists?
Harry W. Mazal OBE responds:
The numbers were tattooed on various parts of their bodies, their wrists, their forearms, or in some cases on their chest.
Harry W. Mazal OBE
Question:
Are there any documents to correlate the tattoos of Ravensbruck and Buchenwald to the names of the people who were sent to the individual camps?
Harry W. Mazal OBE responds:
It is my understanding that tattoos were only used in Auschwitz to identify the prisoners:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Tattoos.html
Yours sincerely,
Harry W. Mazal OBE
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