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First Lieutenant Reba Zitella Whittle (August 19, 1919 – January 26, 1981 [1]) was a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II.She became the only American military female prisoner of war in the European Theater after her casualty evacuation aircraft was shot down in September 1944.
Johanna Wisotzki [48] was Oberaufseherin in Bromberg-Ost (Bydgoszcz East) from June 1944 until January/February 1945 along with Gerda Steinhoff, while Ilse Koch was appointed (unofficially) head female guard at Buchenwald, even though the camp had very few female prisoners. Koch was convicted of war crimes; she committed suicide in Aichach ...
Herta Bothe (8 March 1921 – 16 March 2000) was a German concentration camp guard during World War II. She was imprisoned for war crimes after the defeat of Nazi Germany , and was subsequently released early from prison on 22 December 1951.
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.
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film directed by Bruce Beresford, about a group of English, American, Dutch, and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It stars Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Julianna Margulies, Jennifer Ehle, Cate Blanchett, and Elizabeth Spriggs. The film ...
The number of women held in Buchenwald was somewhere between 500 and 1,000. The first female inmates were twenty political prisoners who were accompanied by a female SS guard ; these women were brought to Buchenwald from Ravensbrück in 1941 and forced into sexual slavery at the camp's brothel.
Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.
Fania Fénelon, a French Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II.After having their belongings and clothes taken and their heads shaved, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp.