September 5, 1919 - Elisabeth Volkenrath
Volkenrath rose from unskilled volunteer to the senior female authority at two of the most lethal camps in the Nazi system, a trajectory shaped by participation in selections that determined who lived and who was sent to the gas chambers. Her presence at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen — the latter during the catastrophic final months of the war — placed her at the center of mass death across the full arc of the camp system's operation. She was tried at the Belsen Trial and hanged in December 1945, less than four months after liberation.
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Elisabeth Volkenrath (née Mühlau; 5 September 1919 – 13 December 1945) was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Volkenrath, née Mühlau, was an ungelernte Hilfskraft (unskilled worker) when she volunteered for service in a concentration camp. In October 1941 she began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp as a guard. In March 1942, she was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where she worked in the same function as at Ravensbrück. At Auschwitz, she met SS-Rottenführer Heinz Volkenrath, who had worked there since 1941 as SS-Blockführer. The couple married in 1943. She participated in the selection of prisoners for the gas chambers and, in November 1944, was promoted to Oberaufseherin (supervising wardress) for all camp sections for female prisoners at Auschwitz.
Volkenrath was transferred to Bergen-Belsen when Auschwitz was closed. From February 1945, she was Oberaufseherin at Bergen-Belsen.
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