Helmbrechts concentration camp

Herta Haase, Erna Achtenberg, Ellia Mains, Ingeborg Schimming-Assmuss, and Ruth Hildner were some of the female SS troops stationed in the camp.

The camps population was mainly non-Jews, but in March 1945, a group of over 500 Jewish women arrived on foot from the Grünberg subcamp in Poland.

One prisoner who stayed there a month on the Volary death march writes of sleeping on dirt floors with no blankets.

[1][page needed] Weissman Klein reports that each morning the guards came by with a wheelbarrow to haul away the bodies of those who died in the night.

Commandant Doerr ordered the women and a few men, one being a rabbi, to depart on a death march to the Dachau concentration camp.

Two stories broke about former SS-Aufseherin ("Overseer") Ingeborg Schimming-Assmuss who was accused of killing four prisoners at the camp and on the death march into Czechoslovakia.

"The [camp] called her 'the Terrible Inge'- Inge Assmuss, earlier Schimming, one of 27 [female guards] inside the external bearing Helmbrechts."

Another former prisoner related, "...on the first day after the march [began] an Aufseherin--she was called Inge--tore my completely weakened friend Bassia from my arms with a switch and dragged her into the forest.

The German government was in the process of prosecuting the former female guard, but as the title of the article stated, death stopped all proceedings.

May 11, 1945: German civilians are forced to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops in a 500-kilometre (300 mi) march across Czechoslovakia from Helmbrechts concentration camp. Buried in shallow graves in Volary , Czechoslovakia, the bodies were exhumed by German civilians working under the direction of Medics of the 5th Infantry Division, US Third Army. The bodies were later placed in coffins and reburied in the cemetery in Volary.