Four Women Show their Tattooed Identification Numbers

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.366

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

1-1-1947

Files

Content Warning

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Description

Front: Smiling women showing their identification numbers tattooed on their forearms. Back: Wire photo with newspaper clipping attached verso, "Liberated by the United States Ninth army in Kaunitz Germany, these Jewish girls, who were forced to work in a German munitions factory, bare their arms to show where Germans tattooed identification numbers.''

Dimensions

5 1/4 x 7 3/4"

Keywords

Liberated, Kaunitz, Germany, tattoo, identification

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Four Women Show their Tattooed Identification Numbers" (1947). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.366.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/622