Auschwitz - Poland

The Poznań Regional Court issued a European Arrest Warrant for a former SS supervisor from the forced labor camp, Rzeczpospolita informed. The woman is 93 years old and lives in Germany.

TVP.INFO (News Site in Polish Language)

The newspaper reports that the European Arrest Warrant was issued after “former SS overseer (SS Aufseherin) in the Mittweid forced labor camp, which was a branch of the German concentration camp KL Flossenbürg.”

This is the result of the investigative division of the Poznań IPN, which investigates the crimes committed in this camp. According to the newspaper, the woman is suspected of “complicity in committing in the years 1944–1945 crimes against humanity against Polish citizens imprisoned in this camp, involving their killings and deliberate creation of conditions aimed at their biological destruction.”

The allegations also concern her participation in the so-called death march of prisoners from Mittweida via Hainichen and Freiberg towards Prague. “During this evacuation, the camp crew shot dozens of prisoners, including two Polish women who could not withstand the pace of the march,” we read.

“Rzeczpospolita” reminds that Mittweid’s German camp was founded on October 9, 1944. There, detained after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising; among them were also Poland. They were beaten regularly.

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