In 1944 Flossenbürg became a training camp for extremely large numbers of female guards Aufseherin who were recruited by force from factories all over Germany and Poland.
All together, over 500 women were trained in the camp and in time went on to its subcamps or remained in Flossenbürg.
Women matrons staffed many Flossenburgsubcamps, such as Dresden Ilke Werke, Freiberg, Helmbrechts, Holleischen, Leitmeritz, Mehltheur, Neustadt (near Coburg), Nürnberg-Siemens, Oederan, and Zwodau, and it is known that six SS women staffed the Gundelsdorf subcamp in Czechoslovakia.
Soon after she was sent to the Hirtenberg subcamp near Vienna, Austria.
In erly April 1945, atleast 2,500 more female prisoners came from the female subcamps at Amstetten, St. Lambrecht, Hirtenberg, and the Flossenburgsubcamp at Freiberg.
Then the inmates were transferred to other concentration camps for extermination, or killed by lethal injection at the camp, and cremated in a local crematorium.
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