Hermine Braunsteiner - Wikipedia
WEBHermine Braunsteiner Ryan (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany. [1][2] Braunsteiner was known to prisoners of …
"The Mare of Majdanek" - Google Books
WEB"The Mare of Majdanek": Female Concentration Camp Guards in History and Fiction Lynn L. Wolff University of Wisconsin , 2001 - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - 198 pages
War Criminal Hermine Braunsteiner, the “Mare of Majdanek,” on …
WEBWar Criminal Hermine Braunsteiner, the “Mare of Majdanek,” on Trial. U.S. v. Ryan, 360 F. Supp. 265 (E.D.N.Y. 1973) Austrian Holocaust survivor and dedicated Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal followed Hermine Braunsteiner’s trail from Vienna to Canada to Queens.
»The Mare of Majdanek«. Intersections of History and Fiction in ...
WEBSep 4, 2004 · Bernhard Schlink's novel Der Vorleser (1995; The Reader [1997]), won international attention and success, no doubt in part for its enthralling, intergenerational love story and its discussion of the particular questions facing and posed by »die Nachgeborenen«, the generation born after World War …
A Nazi Past, a Queens Home Life, an Overlooked Death
WEBDec 2, 2005 · Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was a Queens homemaker in 1964 when The New York Times revealed her notorious past as a vicious Nazi death camp guard. Nearly a decade later, she became the first United...
A Stone for My Great-Grandmother | The New Yorker
WEBFeb 9, 2015 · In one particularly infamous case, Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a housewife living in Queens, was revealed to have been the Stomping Mare of the Majdanek concentration camp, a guard known for...
The Violence of Female Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps …
WEBFeb 5, 2015 · Through a case study of one specific camp– the concentration and extermination camp of Majdanek where a total of 28 female guards worked between the autumn of 1942 and the spring of 1944 – it will focus on the ‘interplay of actors’ and the everyday experiences, practices and interactions of female SS personnel.
485 Days At Majdanek - Hoover Institution
WEBMar 11, 2021 · Kwiatkowski’s 485 Days at Majdanek is sad reading. It describes the perverse character of the concentration camp system, the senseless violence, sadism, and severe privation that took place there, the harsh trials of the Poles, and the barbaric persecution and elimination of the Jews.
Majdanek trials - Wikipedia
WEBAt the Third Majdanek Trial, held between November 26, 1975, and June 30, 1981, before a West German Court at Düsseldorf, sixteen defendants were arraigned. Five were cleared of all charges, two released due to ill health, one died of …
485 Days At Majdanek - Hoover Institution
WEBNov 6, 2020 · In this memoir, Jerzy Kwiatkowski tells the harrowing tale of the sixteen months he spent at Majdanek, a concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin in occupied Poland. In stark detail, he describes the organization and operations of the camp and, for its prisoners, the fierce struggle for survival.