prisoner’s personal card. “ It was used when entering or leaving the camp and was stored at the camp registry. The personal card had a standard model and the document went with the prisoner. In this case the card is from a prison camp in Gross- Rosen. It contained personal data, nationality, the prisoner number (which was changed when he went to another camp), the type of the triangle worn , his category (here: Sch from Schutzhaftbefehl, ie, “preventive custody”), the family address, a precise physical description, the police data about his stays in other camps (here we are dealing with a lack of entries). The prisoners could only attain their own documents during the pandemonium that followed the liberation of the camps.
