There is evidence of SS Wardress complicity in the crimes of the Camp Administration . " In late 1944, SS women in Ravensbrueck set up next to the crematorium a provisional gas chamber.
12.
After a violent struggle I was forced into a chair, the handcuffs removed, my arms being held by the wardresses, whilst the doctor forcibly fed me by that obnoxious instrument, the stomach tube.
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Bernigau was posted to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1944 as chief wardress and dealt with the initial training of female guard candidates until they were dispersed out to Langenbielau / Reichenbach for completion of their course.
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The same evening several wardresses entered her cell and ordered her to go to the doctor's room to be forcibly fed . " I refused, " she says, " and was dragged to the foot of the stairs with my hands handcuffed behind.
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She lay there in an exhausted state for some hours, being unable to rise without the aid of her hands and arms, which were still fastened behind her back, until, at last, a wardress came in and lifted her onto the bed board.
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According to the diary account of her colleague Hannah Moynihan : Last night [ 10th April ] at 11pm, we heard the commotion which usually accompanies the arrival of new prisoners . . . we pestered the wardress and she told us there were four-Maud Gonne MacBride, her daughter Mrs Iseult Stuart and two lesser lights . . . Early this morning . . . we could see Maud walkin majestically past our cell door leading on a leash a funny little lap dog which answered to the name that sounded like Wuzzo-Wuzzo.
