- Elsa Erich
Elsa Erik (or Elsa Ehrich) was an
Nazi SS wardress duringWorld War II . She worked as anAufseherin atRavensbrück concentration camp , and was later transferred toMajdanek as an Aufseherin.Life
Little personal information is known about Erich.
Camp
In August 1940 Erich volunteered to be a warden in
KZ Ravensbrück , in 1942 she was transferred to Majdanek.Because of good performance in Majdanek, Erich became SS-Oberaufseherin over thirty other SS women. She ran a camp where over 100,000 women and children were gassed, shot, beaten, starved or otherwise killed. Several prisoners testified of Erich's sadistic attitude when she took part in beatings and selections, in which she was often helped by
Hermine Braunsteiner .In mid-1944, at the approach of the
Soviet Army , Erich went toKraków-Płaszów concentration camp in April 1944 as chief wardress. From there, in June 1944, the SS posted Erich at a Neuengamme subcamp (it is unknown which one).Trial
In 1948, Erich was tried by a Polish court in
Lublin and sentenced to death. The former SS woman was hanged soon after sentencing.Links
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/WarCrime4.html Biodata]
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