Angelika was a female overseer at three camps during World War II.
Angelika Grass (or Gras) was born in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 1922. In 1944 she volunteered for camp duty, so the SS sent her to Flossenburg to undergo guard training. Her immediate role was an Aufseherin, or a low ranking female guard. In the summer of 1944 she was selected to be a guard at the newly opened Helmstedt Beendorf III subcamp near Ludwigslust, Germany. There she oversaw 3,000 female prisoners, many of them Jewish and non-Jewish women from Auschwitz, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, and Ravensbruck. In 1945, Angelika was one of several male and female guards to be assigned to Neuengamme camp. There she served as overseer until its evacuation in April 1945. It is unknown if Angelika was one of the thirteen female overseers who guarded on three ships full of prisoners in Lübeck Harbor, Germany. The British bombed those ships in May killing 1/3 of all the inmates, and half of the SS guards on board. Aufseherin (female overseer or attendant - german plural Aufseherinnen) is the term for a female guard in the Nazi concentration camps. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Flossenbürg concentration camp was a German prison built in 1938 at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria. ... During World War 2 Neuengamme was a concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany[1]. The site is one of the few concentration camps in Germany where most of the buildings have been conserved and serves as a memorial today. ... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ...
Grass is a monocotyledonous green plant characterized by slender leaves, called blades, which usually grow upwards from the ground.
Grass (1925 film), a 1925 documentary following a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures.
Grass (1999 film), a 1999 documentary about history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.
The apple trees were plants she had grafted in a class at Cornell, using a dwarfing B9 rootstock with some heirloom apple varieties (Holstein Cox and Hudson's Golden Gem) as well as Sansa, a Japanese variety.
Fortunately, the top few inches of the soil weren't that rocky, but it took me a while to learn that I didn't need to dig that deeply for this, and I was pretty wiped out.
Angelika, who does plenty of this for work, did a lot better than I did.