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Elisabeth Volkenrath

Oberaufseherin (Senior Supervisor)
Ravensbrück Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
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. There she took part in selections and abuse of prisoners. In November 1944, she was promoted to SS Oberaufseherin and oversaw three hangings. She later went to Bergen-Belsen as supervising wardress.

In April 1945 she was arrested by the British Army and sent to prison. She eventually stood trial with Irma Grese and many other Nazi guards at the Belsen Trial.

She was sentenced to death and hanged on December 13 1945, at Hameln by Albert Pierrepoint.
Ravensbrück (IPA: [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a notorious women's concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück
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State Party  Poland
Type Cultural
Criteria vi
Reference 31
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1979  (3rd Session)
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Bergen-Belsen may refer to:
  • Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen
  • Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942-1945), initially a POW camp from 1940-1942.
  • Bergen-Belsen DP camp, a displaced persons camp set up by British forces in 1945 near the site of the concentration camp.

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December 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Hamelin
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SS usually refers to the Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force. It may also refer to:

Military

  • Special Service, a division of soldiers in British service during World War II (later renamed Commandos)

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Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place".
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Dorothea (Thea) Binz (born March 16, 1920; died May 2, 1947) was an SS supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Second World War. Binz is said to have been depraved and cruel.
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Ravensbrück (IPA: [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a notorious women's concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück
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Rapportführerin ("Report Leader"), Erstaufseherin ("First Guard"), Lagerführerin ("Camp Leader" [high position]) or Oberaufseherin ("Senior Overseer").
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abuse. For the computer game, see Abuse (computer game). For a similar word (e.g. a make of padlocks), see Abus.
“Mistreat” redirects here. For other uses, see Mistreat (disambiguation).

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This page is about death by hanging. For other uses, see hang.
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck
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Bergen-Belsen may refer to:
  • Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen
  • Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942-1945), initially a POW camp from 1940-1942.
  • Bergen-Belsen DP camp, a displaced persons camp set up by British forces in 1945 near the site of the concentration camp.

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The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with unification of the governments and armed forces of England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.
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Irma Grese (born October 7, 1923 at Wrechen near Pasewalk, Mecklenburg – died December 13, 1945 Hameln) was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
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Nazism, National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or
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The Belsen Trial was one of several trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end of World War II.
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"Death Sentence"
Author Isaac Asimov
Language English
Genre(s) science fiction short story
Published in Astounding Science Fiction
Publisher Street & Smith
Media type Magazine
Publication date November 1943 Death Sentence
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This page is about death by hanging. For other uses, see hang.
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck
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December 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of a Yorkshire family who provided three of Britain's Chief Executioners in the first half of the 20th century.
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