The Holocaust Encyclopedia resource on the website for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., says that tattoos of serial numbers were given only (and specifically) to prisoners at the Auschwitz complex of concentration camps (which included Auschwitz I [Main Camp], Auschwitz II [Auschwitz-Birkenau], and Auschwitz III [Monowitz and the subcamps]) who had been selected for work. Prisoners at other Nazi concentration camps were not tattooed; neither were prisoners at Auschwitz who were selected for immediate execution instead of a work detail. The purpose of the tattoo was for the Nazis to have a system by which they could identify and catalog the bodies of the slave-laborer prisoners after their deaths.

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