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  B@H / C18 - A German Girl's Heroic Death
He referred to her as a "bonnie lassie" and said she spent the night before her execution singing "Nazi songs" with her fellow condemned inmates.
She was hanged the next morning along with two other German women, nurses Elisabeth Volkenrath and Juana Bormann.
Irma Grese was led to the gallows first, and Pierrepoint wrote that as he slipped the noose around her neck and pulled the hood down over her face she gave him an "enigmatic smile" which haunted him for the rest of his life.
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 Female Nazis
All I was able to find out about these women was their trial sentences.
Therese Brandel or Brandl, Hildegard Lachert, Ewa Paradies, Emma Zimmer, Elisabeth Lupka, Elsa Drexler and Gerda Steinhoff.
It is possible that you will receive other responses from my colleagues.
www.holocaust-history.org /questions/female-nazis.shtml   (258 words)

  
  Elisabeth Volkenrath Information
Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919 – December 13 1945, Hameln) was an SS supervisor at several concentration camps during World War II.
She trained under SS supervisor Dorothea Binz at Ravensbrück concentration camp, and in 1943 went to Auschwitz Birkenau as an Aufseherin.
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  Irma Grese
She was convicted of crimes committed at both Auschwitz and Belsen and sentenced to death by hanging.
Ten others were also sentenced to death including two other women, Juana Bormann[?] and Elisabeth Volkenrath[?].
Executed at Hameln jail by Albert Pierrepoint, she was the youngest woman to die judicially under English law in the 20th century.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ir/Irma_Grese.html   (255 words)

  
 Irma Grese
The sentence of this court is that you suffer death by being hanged." She showed little emotion throughout her trial and none when the death sentence was translated into German for her as "Tode durch den Strang," literally death by the rope.
She, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juana Bormann and the 8 male prisoners were transferred to Hameln (Hamelin) jail in Wesfalia to await execution.
After twenty minutes the body was taken down and placed in a coffin ready for burial." Elisabeth Volkenrath followed Irma to the gallows at 10.03 and Juana Bormann at 10.38.
www.geocities.com /richard.clark32@btinternet.com/irma.html   (1574 words)

  
 The Belsen Trial - The trail of Commandant Josef Kramer and 44 others
According to the trial transcripts, Elizabeth Volkenrath testified under direct examination that she arrived at Auschwitz No. 1 in March, 1942, and was transferred to Birkenau in December, 1942, where she worked in the parcel office and bread store till September, 1944.
She said she attended selections during August, 1942 because she had to be present as she was in charge of the women's camp, but she had merely to see that the prisoners kept quiet and orderly.
Volkenrath said she had seen lorries on the road, but whether they went to the gas chamber she did not know.
www.scrapbookpages.com /BergenBelsen/BergenBelsen09.html   (5714 words)

  
 Elisabeth Volkenrath
Der Artikel Elisabeth Volkenrath gehört zur Kategorie: Frau, KZ-Personal, Deutscher, Geboren 1919, Gestorben 1945
Dezember 1945 in Hameln, hingerichtet) war während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Aufseherin in mehreren Konzentrationslagern und gehörte damit zum Hilfspersonal der SS (die Mitgliedschaft in der SS war Frauen verschlossen).
Am gleichen Tag wie Volkenrath wurden in Hameln zehn weitere Verurteilte aus dem Bergen-Belsen-Prozess vom britischen Henker Albert Pierrepoint gehängt, darunter Johanna Bormann und Irma Grese.
www.weblexikon.de /Elisabeth_Volkenrath.html   (146 words)

  
 Juana Bormann at AllExperts
In March she arrived at her last post, Bergen-Belsen, near Celle, where she served under Josef Kramer, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath (all of whom had served with her in Birkenau.) On April 15, 1945 the British army took Bergen-Belsen, finding over 10,000 corpses and 60,000 survivors.
The court heard testimony relating to murders she had committed at Auschwitz and Belsen, sometimes unleashing her "big bad wolfhound" German shepherd on helpless prisoners.
She was found guilty and hanged (along with Grese and Volkenrath) on December 13, 1945.
en.allexperts.com /e/j/ju/juana_bormann.htm   (408 words)

  
 5th part of: Aufseherin Herta Bothe
Sitting in the court dock at Luneburg, along with 44 others from Belsen camp, she wore her # 37 placard on her chest, and the trial proceedings began.
She shared that same dock with other notorious camp guards from Belsen, such as Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Herta Ehlert, Juanna Bormann and camp doctor, Fritz Klein....just to name a few.
In her own testimony, Herta Bothe denied ever having a pistol in her possession, and she denied ever carrying a stick.
journals.aol.com /rappcom/HERTABOTHEherlifeasafemaleNaziSS/entries/2004/03/17/5th-part-of-aufseherin-herta-bothe/202   (348 words)

  
 Belsen Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The defendants faced charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in these two concentration camp through their participation in the torture and mass-murder of camp inmates.
All except Starotska were accused of having committed such crimes at Bergen-Belsen; Starotska, Kramer, Klein, Weingartner, Kraft, Hoessler, Borman, Volkenrath, Ehlert, Gura, Grese, Lothe, Lobauer and Schreirer were also charged with atrocities committed at Auschwitz.
Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Peter Weingartner, Franz Hössler, Juana Bormann, Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Karl Francioh, Anchor Pichen, Franz Stofel, and Wilhelm Dorr were sentenced to death by hanging.
belsen-trial.mindbit.com   (339 words)

  
 Lest we forget! - The Cat Arena   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In her testimony, Volkenrath denied having herself made gas chamber selections.
On direct examination by her attorney, Volkenrath testified that she arrived at Belsen on the 5 February 1945.
She had only been there a few days when she had to go to the hospital, returning to work on 23 March 1945.
www.thecatarena.com /forum/showthread.php?t=12626   (9883 words)

  
 Auschwitz concentration camp -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Höß provided a detailed description of the camp's workings during his interrogations after the war and also in his autobiography.
He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I. Chief of the women's field was handled by Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, and Elisabeth Volkenrath.
About 700 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz camps during the years of their operation, with about 300 attempts successful.
en.wikipedia.2es.com.pl /wiki/Auschwitz   (4304 words)

  
 A German Girl's heroic death
He referred to her as a "bonnie lassie" and said she spent the night before her execution singing "Nazi songs" with her fellow inmates.
She was hanged the next morning along with two other German women, nurses Elisabeth Volkenrath and Juana Bormann.
Irma Grese was led to the gallows first, and Pierrepoint wrote that as he slipped the noose around her neck and pulled the hood down over her face she gave him an "enigmatic smile" which haunted him for the rest of his life.
www.cwporter.com /heroic.htm   (1954 words)

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