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Ilse Lothe (born November 6, 1914 in Erfurt , † after 1945) was Kapo in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen .

Life

Lothe, a worker in a shoe factory, was imprisoned for refusing to move from her job to an ammunition factory and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1939/1940 . From there she was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in March 1942 , where she was initially a prisoner in the main camp for four weeks and then used in the Budy subcamp , a property for irrigation (digging ditches), as well as cleaning and deepening fish ponds. From June 1943 to February 1944 she was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau and then became a Kapo of various work detachments until she was transferred to the penal detachment under command leader Peter Weingartner in December 1944 , where she stayed until the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945. The reason for the transfer to the criminal detachment was the unauthorized possession of a few cigarettes that Lothe had organized during an external assignment. Then Lothe arrived via Ravensbrück, where she had been imprisoned for four weeks, on March 4, 1945 with pregnant prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . There Lothe was first in the prisoner infirmary for three weeks due to illness and then Kapo in the vegetable detachment from March 25, 1945 until the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in mid-April 1945. After the liberation of the camp, she worked first in the camp and later in Bergen as a nurse .

She was also detained on suspicion of ill-treatment based on allegations from fellow inmates. In the Bergen-Belsen trial , Lothe was acquitted on November 17, 1945 in Lüneburg . Nothing is known about her further life.

literature

  • United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Volume II: The Belsen Trial. London 1947

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personal data
SURNAME Lothe, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kapo in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century