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Mandl, Maria „die Bestie" (SS-Helferin)

    Date of birth:
    January 10th, 1912 (Münzkirchen, Austro-Hungarian Empire)
    Date of death:
    January 24th, 1948 (Montelupich prison, Krakow, Poland)
    Service number:
    SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.: 8.920.045
    Nationality:
    Austrian

    Biography

    October 15th, 1938: SS-Aufseherin, Stab, KZ Lichtenburg, Prettin, Saxony
    May 15th, 1939: SS-Helferin, SS-Aufseherin, KZ Ravensbrück, Berlin
    April 1st, 1941: joined the NSDAP
    April 1942: promoted to SS-Oberaufseherin
    October 7th, 1942: SS-Lagerführerin, Auschwitz II-Birkenau
    1943: created the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
    November 1944: transferred to KZ-Außenlagerkomplex Mühldorf am Inn, a subcamp of KZ Dachau
    May 1945: escaped towards Münzkirchen, Upper Austria
    August 10th, 1945: captured by US troops
    November 1946: transferred to Poland
    November 1947: sentenced to death by the military court in Krakow
    January 24th, 1948: hanged in prison in Krakow, Poland

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    Sources

    • - Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators