Volkenrath was a supervisor at several Nazi concentration
camps during the Second World War. The British Army arrested her in April 1945.
She stood trial at the Belsen Trial and was sentenced to death. On 13 December
1945, she was executed by Albert Pierrepoint at the Hamelin Prison. She was 26
at that time.
Grese, like Volkenrath, worked in Nazi concentration camps.
She too stood trial at the Belsen Trial and was also sentenced to death. She
was 23 when she was executed in 1945.
Kramer had been at several concentration camps. Pierrepoint
hung Kramer in 1945.
On This Day is a prompt I started this month to further
explore historical events. I will make every effort to keep events localized to
that of my research or research I am conducting for others. However, from time
to time, it will simply be a subject that captured my attention.
