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Numbers were tattooed on people who were in the concentration camps, so they could be identified by numbers instead of names. It was a way of depersonalizing them, making them seem more like just a number, not like a real person, which psychologically would have made it easier for those who killed them to view the people as not real human beings.
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Where were the female prisoners in the Holocaust?
Yes there were many, many female prisoners during the Holocaust.
Did all prisoner of wars get tattoos as a ID?
No, it is not legal to tattoo a prisoner of war (a captured soldier) forceably, the prisoners that were tattooed were the Jewish prisoners in the German concentration camps. These people were not prisoners of war (they were not soldiers).
What did the tattoos that prisoners had in concentration camps look like?
Usually on the underside of the forearm. ------------------------- Initially they had the number tattooed on the chest, but towards the end it was changed to the arm, of course most of the survivors were later arrivals, so the tattooing on the arm is more notorious
In World War 2 many German camps tattooed there prisoners. Is there records of what numbers relate to the prisoners?
This was only done at the Auschwitz group of camps. The records of numbers and names still exist.
How were Nazi prison camps established before the start of the holocaust different from those created after after the holocaust began?
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
