Beate Passow - Zähler und Nenner: Beate Passow - Zähler und Nenner The Auschwitz Numbering System: Although all "prisoners in protective custody" were registered in the concentration camps of the Third Reich, it was only in Auschwitz-Birkenau, following "selection", that they were marked with tattooed prisoner numbers. Various series of letters and numbers were created to reflect different prisoner classifications, for example, "Z" for Zigeuner (Gypsy), "EH" for "Erziehungshäfling" (prisoner for correction), and "RKG" for Russischer Kriegsgefangener, for the few registered Russian prisoners-of-war, who incidentally were never photographed. The registration lists show the prisoner's number, name, date of arrival, place of origin of the transport, and sometimes cause of death, for example, 27w for injection of phenol into the heart, and 14 f 13 for euthanasia. In May 1942 a new series of numbers for Jewish prisoners was introduced: "A" for Jewish men and women, and later "B" for Jewish men. The SS also took photographs of the registered prisoners en face and in profile, with the assigned number and classification letter, up until 1943. The number 1 was given to "criminal prisoner" Bruno Brodniewitsch, who was transferred from Sachsenhausen concentration camp on May 20, 1940, while the last number, 202499, was given to the architect and surveyor Engelbrecht Marketsch on January 18, 1945. In 1942 the camp authorities began to re-use numbers. Life expectancy in the camp was a mere three months which allowed the Nazis to reallocate numbers. Today, it is assumed that approximately 405,000 prisoners of various nationalities were registered with tattoos on their left forearms. Russian soldiers reached the camp on 27. January 1945. Tätowiernadeln mehrteilige Fotoarbeit Cibachrom auf Alu 80 x 100 cm 1995 Tätowiernadeln mehrteilige Fotoarbeit Cibachrom auf Alu 80 x 100 cm 1995 Tätowiernadeln mehrteilige Fotoarbeit Cibachrom auf Alu 80 x 100 cm 1995 Tätowiernadeln mehrteilige Fotoarbeit Cibachrom auf Alu 80 x 100 cm 1995 Tätowiernadeln mehrteilige Fotoarbeit Cibachrom auf Alu 80 x 100 cm 1995