Hildegard Neumann

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Hildegard Neumann
Nazi

Hildegard Neumann (born 4 May 1919) was a chief overseer at several

concentration, transition and detention camps during the last year of World War II. She was born in Deutsch Gabel, Czechoslovakia.[1]

Camp work

Neumann came to the

Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia in November 1944 as Head Female Overseer. Neumann was known as a cruel female guard.[citation needed
]

She oversaw between ten and thirty female police and over 20,000 female Jewish prisoners. Neumann also aided in the deportation of more than 40,000 women and children from the camp to the

Bergen Belsen camps, where most were killed. The tasks of the female overseers in Theresienstadt was to guard women prisoners at work on "labour kommandos," during transports to other camps, and in the ghetto itself. Most were cruel and abusive, especially Caecilia Rojko, who was nicknamed the "Prisoners' Fright", and Hildegard Mende, nicknamed "The Beast".[citation needed
]

Escape from prosecution

Neumann fled the camp in May 1945 and was not seen again. She was never prosecuted for war crimes, even though more than 100,000 Jews were deported from Theresienstadt and were murdered or died there, and 55,000 died in the camp itself.[2]

It is claimed that she may have died on 5 November 2010.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 419". www.holocaustchronicle.org. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  2. ^ "Who is Hildegard Neumann? - Story - 2019". Sodiu mmedia. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  3. ^ "Ravensbrueck". Fold3.com. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ^ Se questa è una donna

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