Wanda Klaff

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Supervisors during the 1st  Stutthof Trial in Danzig from April 25 to May 31, 1946 - First row from left to right: Elisabeth Becker , Gerda Steinhoff , Wanda Klaff - Second row from left to right: Erna Beilhardt , Jenny Wanda Barkmann

Wanda Klaff (* 6. March 1922 in Gdansk , † 4. July 1946 ibid) was a German concentration camp - guard .

Life

Her father, Ludwig Kalaciński, was a railroad employee and called himself Kalden since 1941. In 1938 she left school and worked in a jam factory. In 1942 she married Willy Klaff and was a housewife and tram conductress .

In 1944 she became a guard in the Praust subcamp (Pruszcz Gdański) of the Stutthof concentration camp . From October she worked in the same position in the Russoshin subcamp. She fled the camp in early 1945. In June of the same year, she was arrested at her parents' home. Because of typhus , she was first taken to the prison hospital.

During the first Stutthof trial in Danzig, she is said to have testified: “I was very clever and shrewd and ideally suited to work in the warehouse. I beat at least two prisoners every day. ”Together with Elisabeth Becker , Gerda Steinhoff , Ewa Paradies and Jenny Wanda Barkmann , she was publicly executed in July 1946 on the Biskupia Górka .

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