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Luise Danz
Luise Danz served as SS overseer and Rapportführerin. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Majdanek and Auschwitz, occupied Poland through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Luise Danz: 1917-12-11–2009-06-21. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- As an overseer at Majdanek and Auschwitz, Luise Danz beat prisoners; at the end of 1944 she became Rapportführerin in section BIIb of Auschwitz-Birkenau and helped enforce the brutal camp regime. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- On 1947-12-22 the Supreme National Tribunal sentenced her to life imprisonment; after an amnesty the sentence was changed to 15 years, and she was released on 1957-08-20. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As an overseer at Majdanek and Auschwitz, Luise Danz beat prisoners; at the end of 1944 she became Rapportführerin in section BIIb of Auschwitz-Birkenau and helped enforce the brutal camp regime. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- On 1947-12-22 the Supreme National Tribunal sentenced her to life imprisonment; after an amnesty the sentence was changed to 15 years, and she was released on 1957-08-20. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
On 1947-12-22 the Supreme National Tribunal sentenced her to life imprisonment; after an amnesty the sentence was changed to 15 years, and she was released on 1957-08-20. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Pilecki Institute, Chronicles of Terror, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Sources
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