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 NERFINISHED
Germany
countryOfDeath Germany
dateOfArrest 1945-04
dateOfBirth 1919-09-05
dateOfDeath 1945-12-13
dateOfSentencing 1945-11-17
deathSentenceHandedDownBy British military tribunal at Lüneburg NERFINISHED
employer SS administration of Nazi concentration camps NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup German
executioner Albert Pierrepoint NERFINISHED
facedWith British military tribunal
familyName Volkenrath NERFINISHED
givenName Elisabeth NERFINISHED
ideology Nazism
languageSpoken German
mannerOfDeath capital punishment
memberOf SS-Totenkopfverbände NERFINISHED
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel
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 NERFINISHED
World War II
placeOfBirth Essen NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Hameln NERFINISHED
placeOfDetention Allied custody in Germany
Bergen-Belsen (after liberation) NERFINISHED
placeOfExecution Hameln Prison NERFINISHED
positionHeld Oberaufseherin at Auschwitz NERFINISHED
Oberaufseherin at Bergen-Belsen NERFINISHED
religion Protestantism (inferred from background; not definitively documented)
sexOrGender female
wasTriedBy British military court at Lüneburg NERFINISHED
workedAt Auschwitz concentration camp NERFINISHED
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp NERFINISHED
Ravensbrück concentration camp NERFINISHED

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