Elisabeth Volkenrath

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Elisabeth Volkenrath was a Nazi SS overseer at several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, who was tried and executed for war crimes after World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi war criminal
concentration camp overseer
human
causeOfDeath execution by hanging
citizenship Germany
convictedOf crimes against humanity
war crimes
countryOfBirth German Empire
Germany
countryOfDeath Germany
dateOfArrest 1945-04
dateOfBirth 1919-09-05
dateOfDeath 1945-12-13
dateOfSentencing 1945-11-17
deathSentenceHandedDownBy British military tribunal at Lüneburg
employer SS administration of Nazi concentration camps
ethnicGroup German
executioner Albert Pierrepoint
facedWith British military tribunal
familyName Volkenrath
givenName Elisabeth
ideology Nazism
languageSpoken German
mannerOfDeath capital punishment
memberOf SS-Totenkopfverbände
Schutzstaffel
linked to: Schutzstaffel (SS)
notableFor role in administration of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
role in selections and abuse of prisoners at Auschwitz
notableWork service as overseer at Nazi concentration camps
occupation SS overseer
participatedIn Bergen-Belsen trial
World War II
placeOfBirth Essen
placeOfDeath Hameln
placeOfDetention Allied custody in Germany
Bergen-Belsen (after liberation)
linked to: BergenBelsen
placeOfExecution Hameln Prison
positionHeld Oberaufseherin at Auschwitz
Oberaufseherin at Bergen-Belsen
religion Protestantism (inferred from background; not definitively documented)
sexOrGender female
wasTriedBy British military court at Lüneburg
workedAt Auschwitz concentration camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
linked to: BergenBelsen

Ravensbrück concentration camp

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