Emma room

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Emma Anna Maria Zimmer , née Mezel (born August 14, 1888 in Haßmersheim ; † September 20, 1948 in Hameln ) was a German concentration camp guard and from 1937 deployed in several concentration camps , including Ravensbrück and Auschwitz-Birkenau .

Life

Emma Zimmer was the oldest child of the pharmacist Oscar Mezel and his wife Maria geb. Long. She belonged to the camp staff of the Lichtenburg concentration camp from 1937. From there she was transferred to the newly built Ravensbrück concentration camp and was employed as a supervisor in the punishment block from 1939 to 1942. Zimmer was the deputy superintendent from mid-1940 to October 1942 and from March 1942 to April 1942 superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. From October 1942 she worked in the women's block of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was notorious for her brutal and sadistic behavior towards prisoners.

Zimmer was a member of the NSDAP from July 1, 1941 . In September 1943 she was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class Without Swords. At the end of 1943 she was released from concentration camp service, whether due to age or because of alcohol consumption is not known. She lived in Schlüchtern since June 1944 .

In the seventh method of Ravensbruck processes of the British occupation forces Emma Room on July 21, 1948 in Hamburg to death by the strand condemned and on 20 September 1948 prison Hameln executed .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
  • Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .
  • Simone Erpel (Ed.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-19-2 .
  • Kathrin Kompisch: perpetrators. Women in National Socialism , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20188-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name at birth, place and date according to Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 450
  2. ^ New archive for the history of the city of Heidelberg and the Rhineland Palatinate , Heidelberg 1913, Volume X., p. 193
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 450
  4. ↑ a b Kathrin Kompisch: perpetrators. Women in National Socialism , Cologne 2008, p. 161
  5. ↑ Lotte Weiss: My Two Lives: Memories of a Holocaust Survivor. Lit, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50225-4 , p. 74
  6. ↑ Wolfram Lavern: Concentration camp guards-partisans of the NSDAP? , in: Simone Erpel (ed.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. Berlin 2007, p. 39
  7. ↑ Kathrin Kompisch: Perpetrators. Women in National Socialism , Cologne 2008, p. 168
personal data
SURNAME Room, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmer, Emma Anna Maria (full name); Mezel, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hassmersheim
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1948
Place of death Hamelin