Some choosing to get their grandparents’ Auschwitz prison tattoo

The World

Those who arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and were chosen for the work camps were tattooed with a prisoner number. Survivors lived with these tattoos the rest of their lives. Now, some of their descendants are getting copies of those prisoner tattoos as an act of love and remembrance. Journalist Dale Berning Sawa with The Conversation Weekly podcast meets the academic studying the small but growing trend.

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