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Amalie Wilde was a concentration camp guard at Buchenwald, a camp in central Germany during World War II. A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ... Wikipedia will not tolerate irrelevant posts. ...


Amalie Wilde (or Vilde) was born Amalie Jung on May 12, 1924, or on June 2, 1922 in Holzheim or Munich, Germany (her file is not clear). In September 1941 Amalie was sent to Buchenwald as one of the first female overseers in the camp under Ilse Koch. At that time the only women who came to the camp were elderly Jewesses from Vienna, and several female political prisoners, who did not stay in the camp for long. Eventually, Amalie stayed in the camp for almost the whole duration of the camps existence (September 1941 until April 1945). Prisoner accounts of Amalie vary, some say she was not rutheless, while others say she equaled Koch in her brutality. Amalie fled the Buchenwald camp in April 1945 and was never tried for war crimes. Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German state of Bavaria. ... Ilse Koch, née Kohler (September 22, 1906 - September 1, 1967), was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. ...


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Amalie Wilde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (183 words)
Amalie Wilde was a concentration camp guard at Buchenwald, a camp in central Germany during World War II.
Amalie Wilde (or Vilde) was born Amalie Jung on May 12, 1924, or on June 2, 1922 in Holzheim or Munich, Germany (her file is not clear).
In September 1941 Amalie was sent to Buchenwald as one of the first female overseers in the camp under Ilse Koch.
Amalia (Molly) Altwasser (1695 words)
Amalie was the fourth daughter born to Friedrich W. Altwasser and Wilhelmine Wilde and was born in the Shitomir Parish of Volhynia, Russia on September 1, 1877 based on the Julian calendar, and on September 13 based on the Gregorian calendar (Western European and North American calendar).
Amalie came to Canada with her parents and was listed as a spinster, age 19, on the ship's record log.
Amalie continued to live in Vibank and near the end of her life, she lived for various periods of time with each of her children and their families, but especially at her sons' homes.
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