Juana bormann biography

Johanna Borman (or Juanna Bormann, the spelling shown on her death warrant) (click here for photo) was born at Birkenfelde in on September the 10th 1893.

She was apparently deeply religious and had given up missionary work to join the SS.She went to work at Lichtenburg, the first women’s concentration camp, as a civilian employee on and initially worked in the kitchens.She and the rest of the staff and inmates were transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp when it opened in May 1939.Here she was as an Aufseherin (overseer).In March 1942 she moved on to concentration camp in and then in October of that year was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau.In 1944, she went to the satellite camp at Hindenburg, before returning to Ravensbrück in January 1945.In March of that year she was sent to , where she served under its commandant Josef Kramer.Like most of the defendants to stand trial for war crimes at she was arrested at the camp on the day