Wanda Klaff
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Wanda Klaff (6 March 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After the war, she was executed for crimes against humanity.
Early lifeEdit
Wanda Kalacinski was the daughter of railway worker Ludwig Kalacinski.<ref name="SSfrauenWKlaff">Template:Citation</ref> The family name was changed to Kalden in 1941.<ref name="SSfrauenWKlaff" /> She finished school in 1938 and worked in a jam factory until 1942. That year, she married Willy Klaff, then a streetcar operator, and became a housewife.<ref name="SSfrauenWKlaff" />
SS career, arrest, trial and executionEdit
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In 1944, Klaff joined the Stutthof concentration camp staff at Stutthof's Praust subcamp in present-day Pruszcz, where she abused many of the prisoners.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> On 5 October 1944, she arrived at Stutthof's Russoschin subcamp, in present-day northern Poland.
Klaff fled the camp in early 1945 but on 11 June 1945 was arrested by Polish officials; soon after, she fell ill from typhoid fever in prison. She stood trial at the first Stutthof trial with other former female supervisors and male personnel.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She stated at the trial, "I am very intelligent and very devoted to my work in the camps. I struck at least two prisoners every day."<ref name="SSfrauenWKlaff"/>
Klaff was convicted and received the death sentence. She was publicly hanged by short-drop method on 4 July 1946 on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk, aged 24.<ref>Stutthof Trial. Female guards in Nazi concentration camps Template:Webarchive, jewishvirtuallibrary.org (archived); accessed 13 November 2014.</ref>
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SourcesEdit
- Benjamin B. Ferencz, Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation, books.google.com; accessed 13 November 2014.