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Prisoners' camp identification numbers, cloth emblems, and armbands

Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin.

More specialized identification in Nazi concentration camps was done with badges on clothing and armbands.

Numbers

A practice was established to tattoo the inmates with identification numbers. Prisoners sent straight to gas chambers didn't receive anything.

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Initially, in Auschwitz, the camp numbers were sewn on the clothes; with the increased death rate, it became difficult to identify corpses, since clothes were removed from corpses. Therefore, the medical personnel started to write the numbers on the corpses' chests with indelible ink.

Difficulties increased in 1941 when Sovietprisoners of war came in masses, and the first few thousand tattoos were applied to them. This was done with a special st