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Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps (operated by Nazi Germany in its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe) 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.
Schematic of the triangle-based badge system in use at most Nazi concentration camps. Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. [1]
Parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy, captured by the Germans and executed in November 1944. Kibbutz Netzer Sereni in Israel is named after him. Jean ("Johnny") Voste, the one documented black prisoner, was a Belgian resistance fighter from the Belgian Congo ; he was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and was one of the survivors of Dachau ...
Buchenwald inmates The bullet-ridden body of one SS guard, the other stabbed, who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation. Buchenwald memorial Buchenwald's crematorium Polish prisoners from Buchenwald awaiting execution in the forest near the camp, April 26, 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners ...
Ravensbrück (pronounced [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The largest single national group consisted of 40,000 Polish women.
Wilhelm Kling, German communist; Bruno Leuschner, East German politician; Artur London, Czechoslovakian communist; Hugo Lunardon , Austrian policeman who investigated activities of the DNSAP prior to the Anschluss; Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of General
Yugoslav prisoners in Nazi concentration camps (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Prisoners of Nazi concentration camps" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Jewish (German) September 3, 1944 – October 28, 1944 Teenage diarist from Amsterdam, held 7 weeks at Auschwitz, transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she died of Typhus. Eva Brewster: December 28, 1922: December 3, 2004: 81 Jewish (German) April 1943 – January 1945 Author of Vanished in Darkness – An Auschwitz Memoir. Sigmund Sobolewski: 88 ...