Ep:5 Numbers on the Arm: The Auschwitz Tattoo System
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Of all the concentration camps the Nazi regime built and operated across occupied Europe, only one tattooed its prisoners. The practice at Auschwitz began as a solution to an administrative problem: prisoners were dying faster than the clothing-based numbering system could keep up with. A number sewn to a jacket meant nothing once the jacket changed hands. The answer was ink in skin — permanent, unseverable, impossible to redistribute. More than four hundred thousand serial numbers were issued at Auschwitz between 1941 and 1945. Each was unique. None were reused. Prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers received no number at all. The tattoo, in the most precise and terrible sense, was a mark of selection. This episode examines how the system worked, who applied it, what the different number series meant, and what survivors carried out of the camp when the gates finally opened in January 1945 — including the question of whether a mark imposed by others can ever truly be reclaimed.
More info: encyclopedia.ushmm.org — search "tattoos and numbers Auschwitz" auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/tattooing-numbers-at-auschwitz
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