After the war she fled to the United States and married a German Jewish man who she claimed never knew about her role in the Holocaust.
At a German-American club in San Francisco she met Fred William Rinkel,[4] a German Jew whose family had been murdered in the Holocaust,[1] and they married about 1962.
However, other information contradicts this: "One prisoner reported that women were even worse than men in commanding their dogs to brutally attack inmates.
[citation needed] On 1 September 2006 Rinkel was deported to Germany[10][11] under a settlement agreement signed in June 2006 after being charged by a federal law requiring removal of aliens who took part in acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution filed by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the United States Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
[12] Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher issued a statement, saying that: "Concentration camp guards such as Elfriede Rinkel played a vital role in the Nazi regime's horrific mistreatment of innocent victims.
[citation needed] She spent some time on a farm in the Rhineland with distant relatives, then moved into a nursing home in Willich, Northrhine-Westfalia, where she died in July 2018.