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- Title
Tattooing, Auschwitz style.
- Authors
Hoenig, Leonard J.
- Abstract
In this article the author discusses the tattooing system used by the Nazis to identify concentration camp inmates and dehumanize them, such as the tattoo imprinted on the left forearm of an 80-year-patient. He explores the story behind the Holocaust tattoo on the left forearm of Rochel, a Holocaust survivor in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. He says that tattooing was used at Auschwitz-Birkenau to facilitate the identification of corpses among inmates during the World War II.
- Subjects
POLAND; CONCENTRATION camp tattoos; NAZIS; SELECTION process for concentration camp inmates; HOLOCAUST survivors; AUSCHWITZ concentration camp; BRZEZINKA (Poland : Concentration camp); WORLD War II
- Publication
International Journal of Dermatology, 2011, Vol 50, Issue 9, p1166
- ISSN
0011-9059
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.04907.x