Suze Arts was a concentration camp guard at two camps during the last three years of World War II.

Suze Arts was born in Tilburg, Holland (Netherlands) sometime between 1920 and 1924. In 1932 she went to a boarding school in Germany where she joined the HJ (Hiler Junged, Hitler Youth) and she met and fell in love with Franz Ettlinger. She later became a waitress in Holland while her lover went to Germany to become an SS officer. He did, and later served in various camps, Flossenburg, Auschwitz and last in 1943 he came to Vught as head of the transport department. There he persuaded Suze to join the camp staff so they could be together. She did, and in 1943 the SS sent her to Ravensbruck to undergo guard training. In mid-1943 she returned to Vught and the two lovers were re-united. In January 1944, Suze took part in the torture and murder of ten women at Vught. It became known as the Bunker Tragedy. In June or July 1944 Suze was assigned to Ravensbruck where she continued her abuse towards the camps women. She fled the camp in April 1945. In 1948 the Dutch government tracked down Suze Ettlinger (nee Arts) and placed her on trial for war crimes at the Vught and Ravensbruck concentration camps. They sentenced her to fifteen years imprisonment, but Suze Arts Ettlinger was released in 1953.

External Links

• WW2 Collaborator site (http://collaborator.ww2.klup.info/) with information on the life, crimes, and fate of Suze Arts, as well as a picture of her. (She is number two on the list of collaborators.)