Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Irma Grese across 6 places, from 1923 to 1945.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Irma Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Irma Grese was documented, and when
7 October 1923exact date
Feldberger Seenlandschaftattested“Irma Ilse Ida Grese was born on 7 October 1923, in , a rural village of (since merged into Feldberger Seenlandschaft) to parents Alfred Anton Albert Grese and Berta Wilhelmine Winter.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
1938year
Fürstenberg/Havelattested“Grese left school in 1938 at the age of fourteen and worked at a dairy factory in Fürstenberg for six months before moving on to work as a retail clerk in a small shop in Lychen for another six.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
1938year
Lychenattested“Grese left school in 1938 at the age of fourteen and worked at a dairy factory in Fürstenberg for six months before moving on to work as a retail clerk in a small shop in Lychen for another six.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
March 1943month
Ravensbrück concentration campattested“Grese returned to Ravensbrück immediately following the incident (her final return home), and spent the rest of her time at the concentration camp overseeing work details until March 1943, when she was transferred to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
March 1943month
Auschwitz concentration campattested“Grese returned to Ravensbrück immediately following the incident (her final return home), and spent the rest of her time at the concentration camp overseeing work details until March 1943, when she was transferred to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
18 January 1945exact date
Ravensbrück concentration campattested“Grese remained at Birkenau's "Camp C" until her brief transfer back to Ravensbrück on 18 January 1945, when all personnel were ordered to move westward due to the advance of Soviet forces.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
18 January 1945exact date
Birkenauattested“Grese remained at Birkenau's "Camp C" until her brief transfer back to Ravensbrück on 18 January 1945, when all personnel were ordered to move westward due to the advance of Soviet forces.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
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Places Irma Grese is documented in
Ravensbrück concentration camp2 presences · 1943 to 1945
In each of these, a source puts Irma Grese and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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July 1942month
Ravensbrück concentration campmentioned“In July 1942, she entered Ravensbrück as a trainee.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
1 October 1942exact date
Bergen-Belsen concentration campmentioned“Grese faced two separate charges for war crimes committed at Bergen-Belsen and Birkenau between 1 October 1942 and 30 April 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
May 1944month
Polandmentioned“In May 1944, Grese was given the authority to oversee "Camp C", which consisted of 31 huts and held approximately 30,000 Jewish women from Poland and Hungary.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
March 1945month
Bergen-Belsen concentration campmentioned“Grese's final assignment was to Bergen-Belsen in early March 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
17 September 1945exact date
Lüneburgmentioned“Grese's trial in Lüneburg began on 17 September 1945, alongside 44 other defendants, and became known as the Belsen trials, even though the majority of the atrocities were committed at Birkenau.”source: Wikipedia: Irma Grese
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