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Usually on the underside of the forearm.

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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

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Prisoners were tattooed with a number on their arm or hand. http://http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/tattoos1.html www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007056

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they were numbers. like numbers and letters you would see under a bar code. it was vile and disgusting looking. sunken in.

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