Maria Mandel

SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel was born in Upper Austria in 1912. Since 1942, she was "Schutzhaftlagerfuhrerin" in Auschwitz II. As a "Lover of music" she encouraged the women's orchestra in Birkenau. "Lagerfuhrerin" Mandel, was very intelligent and dedicated to her work. She was arrested on August 10th 1945. The trial of the staff that had been captured took place at Crakow in Poland in the autumn of 1947 and concluded on December 22 of that year.

Maria Mandel was condemned to death as a war criminal by the Supreme People's Court in Crakow and executed. She was accused of many brutal acts during her years at belsen, I personally find it hard to believe that so many women could have been as brutal as the enemies of German Folk have claimed, and even if it were to be true, they lived in a era of WAR and survival, and WAR has never been a tea party, we could cite thousands of similar cases against our own during WW2, but the defeated never have a voice, they remain the persecuted.

Victoria WAU Ireland