Birthplace: Freiwaldau, Sudetenland.
Since 1948, known as Jeseník, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic.
Camp Service: Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
SS Positions: SS-Hilfsaufseherin (assistant overseer), SS-Aufseherin (overseer), SS-Blockführerin (block leader).
Notes: The name ‘HANEL, Sofie,’ appeared as an ‘SS woman Overseer,’ in a file of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) dated March 20, 1947, ‘Personnel of the Concentration Camp in Oswiecim-Auschwitz’.
She was tried by a Czech court for war crimes at an unknown sub-camp, as well as for the ill-treatment of prisoners on a death march at the closing of the war.
She was sentenced to death during the ‘Prague Aufseherinnen’ trial, for murder and maltreatment of camp prisoners, on October 7, 1948.
She was hanged on October 8, 1948 in the Pankrac Prison in Prague.
Birthdate: August 1, 1921
Birthplace: Freiwaldau-Buchelsdorf. Since 1948 known as Jeseník Bukovice, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic.
SS Entry Location/Date: Ravensbrück, April 1942.
Camp Service: Ravensbrück (1942-1943), Majdanek-Lublin (1943-1944), Auschwitz-Birkenau (1944).
SS Positions: SS-Hilfsaufseherin, SS-Aufseherin.
She was tried by a Czech court in Prague, ‘Prague Aufseherinnen trial,’ for war crimes committed on a death march at the end of the war and sentenced to death for murder and mistreatment of camp prisoners.
David was executed by hanging at the Prague-Pankrác Prison on October 8, 1948.
Birthdate: April 15, 1921.
Birthplace: Wittlingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
SS Entry Locaton/Date: Ravensbrück, November 7, 1944.
Camp Service: Ravensbrück (1944-1945) SS Positions: SS-Hilfsaufseherin, SS-Aufseherin.
Notes: Arrested, investigated, interrogated, and tried by a Soviet court in East Berlin during June 1948 ‘Berlin Aufseherinnen trial,’ for war crimes at Ravensbrück and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes.
Camp Service: Ravensbrück, Zwodau/Holleischen (sub- camps of Flossenbürg).
SS Positions: SS-Hilfsaufseherin, SS-Aufseherin.
Notes: Tried by a Czech court, ‘Prague Aufseherinnen trial,' for war crimes at Zwodau/Holleischen and on October 7, 1948 sentenced to 10 years in prison for maltreating camp prisoners.
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