page_title: Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
hierarchical_section_title: Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
caption_attribution_description: Mugshot of Bergen-Belsen guard Irma Grese (1923-1945) at Celle awaiting trial, August 1945. A similar photo can be found in the Imperial War Museum collection as BU 9700.
context_page_description: Aufseherin was the position title for female guards in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Of the 55,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3,700 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a shortage of male guards. The German title for this position, Aufseherin means overseer or attendant. Later female guards were dispersed to Bolzano, Kaiserwald-Riga, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Vaivara, Vught, and at other Nazi concentration camps, subcamps, work camps, detention camps, etc.
context_section_description: Aufseherin [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn] was the position title for female guards in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Of the 55,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3,700 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a shortage of male guards. The German title for this position, Aufseherin means (female) overseer or attendant. Later female guards were dispersed to Bolzano (1944–1945), Kaiserwald-Riga (1943–44), Mauthausen (March – May 1945), Stutthof (1942–1945), Vaivara (1943–1944), Vught (1943–1944), and at other Nazi concentration camps, subcamps, work camps, detention camps, etc.
caption: Mugshot of Bergen-Belsen guard Irma Grese
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