Metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz discovered

Metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz discovered
Article by: JPOST.com
March 13, 2014

The Auschwitz Museum in Poland has recently added metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust to its collection.

In a press release El?bieta Cajzer, Head of the Museum Collections at the Auschwitz Museum said “we acquired removable metal plates with a few millimeter-long needles, which were inserted into a special stamp to create a specific number. The findings, collected in the area of the camp evacuation route, is incomplete; it consists of one zero digit, two threes and two stamps which may be sixes or nines.”

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