Hermine Braunsteiner (1919–1999)
Guard at the concentration camp Ravensbrück and Majdanek
Hermine Braunsteiner from Vienna was a guard at the concentration camp Ravensbrück and at the death camp Majdanek. Survivors described her as ready to use violence and as extraordinarily harsh—especially towards Jewish prisoners.
After 1945 she received a short prison sentence which did not include the crimes committed in Majdanek. She remained silent about her past, married a man from the US, moved there with him and lived undisturbed. It was not until 1973 that Simon Wiesenthal tracked her down and had her extradited to Germany, where she was sentenced to life-long imprisonment at the Majdanek Trials. Braunsteiner showed no remorse for her crimes.
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