Elfriede Mohnecke

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Elfriede Hildegard Mohnecke was a guard at two Nazi concentration camps in World War II.

[edit] Life

She was born in Dorschen, East Prussia, Germany, on March 2, 1922.

[edit] Camps

On October 12, 1944, Mohnecke arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp to begin overseer training under Dorothea Binz. In November of 1944, the SS sent her as an Aufseherin to the Uckermark extermination complex down the road from Ravensbrück. Mohnecke served in the camp until the Allied liberation in April of 1945.

[edit] Sentence

At the third Ravensbrück Trial, the former SS woman was sentenced to ten years in prison for the maltreatment of concentration camp prisoners. Elfriede Hildegard Mohnecke was released after serving only five years.