Jewish women liberated from a factory in Mehlteuer display their tattoos.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 66201

Overview

Caption: Jewish women liberated from a factory in Mehlteuer display their tattoos.

Jewish women, liberated slave laborers of the Germans, display their arms, which the Germans tattooed with numbers for indentification purposes. The women were left behind in Mehlteuer, Germany, when First U.S. Army troops overran the town.
Date: 1945 July 07
Locale: Mehlteuer, [Saxony] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-207836

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS JEWS SURVIVORS TATTOOS WOMEN
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care