Holocaust Survivor Recounts Harrowing Experience At 12 Concentration Camps

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Forever inscribed on Joseph Alexander’s forearm is the number 14284 — the number the Nazis tattooed on him upon entering Auschwitz-Birkenau when he was just a teenager.

“When I got this tattoo, I lost my name,” said Alexander, 77 years after he was liberated from the death camps. “After this, I didn’t have any name anymore. So, when I look at it every day it’s a reminder that I got my name back.”

Born in 1922, Alexander endured five long years of Nazi occupation surviving the Warsaw Ghetto and 12 concentration camps, including Auschwitz.

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