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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Again - wow. I didn't even know that there was a "usual" spot for these numbers. I've never seen one.
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After a time, and I don't know when that was, the tattoos were used for formal record-keeping, rather than just 'marking,' and numbers used. From the early 1900's the prisoner were most commonly tattooed on the forearm. This was the norm for Nazi prison camps. You can do a Google Image search for [Holocaust Arm tattoos] and see that there were many differences, probably varying with the different camps.
Stitchawl