Vera Salvequart
Vera Salvequart (born November 26, 1919 in Wohontsch , Czechoslovakia , † June 26, 1947 in Hameln ) was a member of the inmate staff of the Ravensbrück concentration camp .
Life
Vera Salvequart was the daughter of a Czech woman and the adopted daughter of a Sudeten German . In Leipzig she trained as a nurse and then studied two semesters medicine .
Salvequart had a Jewish friend, which was a criminal offense under the Nuremberg Race Laws . For this reason she was arrested for the first time in May 1941 and imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp . She was released after 10 months in prison, but was arrested again in May 1942 on the same charge. This time she received a two-year prison sentence.
After a short period of freedom, she was arrested for the third time in November 1944. After brief imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , she was transferred to the Berlin-Alexanderplatz prison. In December 1944 Salvequart was brought to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she worked in the infirmary, supervised the evacuation of prisoners to the gas chambers and filled out death certificates. According to testimonies, she was also directly involved in the murder of patients from February 1945 by administering a poisonous powder to them, which usually led to death. Towards the end of the war she was able to evade a threatened execution, which she said threatened because she forged lists of names by putting the names of living women on the list of dead and trying to save them in this way. It was hidden in a locker by male prisoners in the men's camp until the camp was closed.
After the war she was briefly housed in an American camp. Salvequart then lived under the false name Anna Markova for some time in Hofheim am Taunus and worked as a manager in an office for the racially persecuted. Due to allegations of embezzlement, Salvequart settled in Cologne, where she was arrested by the British army and then taken to the Staumühle internment camp .
In December 1946 she was charged under British military jurisdiction in Hamburg . The trial opened here was the first Ravensbrück trial with a total of 16 defendants. The trial ended on February 3, 1947 with eleven death sentences , including one for Salvequart.
The original date for her execution was May 2, 1947 - on that day three other convicted women died by hanging . Because Salvequart had filed a pardon, the execution of her sentence was postponed. The convicted woman repeatedly protested that she had worked for the English secret service during World War II .
Vera Salvequart's pardon was refused and she was hanged in Hameln prison on June 26, 1947 .
literature
- 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 .
- Claudia Taake: Accused: SS women in court. University of Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-8142-0640-1
Web links
- Ravensbrücker Mory acts on spiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Escape to death on spiegel.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salvequart, Vera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse, inmate staff of the Ravensbrück concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wohontsch |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1947 |
| Place of death | Hamelin |