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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, SS Aufseherin: Death, executed 4 July 1946; Elisabeth Becker, SS Aufseherin: Death, executed 4 July 1946; Wanda Klaff, SS Aufseherin: Death, executed 4 July 1946; Ewa Paradies, SS Aufseherin Death, executed 4 July 1946; Gerda Steinhoff, SS Blockleiterin: Death, executed 4 July 1946; Erna Beilhardt, SS Aufseherin: 5 years ...
Besides 8,000 SS men, about 200 female guards were on duty in the Auschwitz concentration camp between May 1940 and January 1945. SS Gefolge Women were the main guards at female specific concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen. [2] Male SS members were not permitted to enter the female camps. [4]
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, back row right, at the Stutthof concentration camp war crimes trial between 25 April and 31 May 1946, in Gdańsk The execution of guards and Polish kapos of the Stutthof concentration camp on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946
Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging.In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff.
Death gate marked with an arrow, next to the red-brick SS administration building. Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo ) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig .
Wanda Klaff (6 March 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski . [ 1 ] After the war, she was executed for crimes against humanity.
The court had recommended that Becker's sentence be commuted to 15 years on the grounds that her actions had not been as severe as those of co-defendants Gerda Steinhoff or Jenny-Wanda Barkmann. Becker had been at the camp for the shortest amount of time. [ 1 ]