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'''Irma Ida Ilse Grese''' also known as Kristjen Nielsen (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a female ''[[SS]]'' guard at the [[Nazi concentration camp]]s of [[Ravensbrück concentration camp|Ravensbrück]] and [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], and served as warden of the women's section of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]].<ref>[[The Times]]; ''The Belsen trial''; 18 September 1945; pg. 6</ref>

Grese was convicted for crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of prisoners committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and sentenced to death at the [[Belsen trial]]. Executed at 22 years of age, Grese was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century. Auschwitz inmates nicknamed her the "Hyena of Auschwitz" ({{lang-de|die Hyäne von Auschwitz}}).<ref name="Hollander">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRswAQAAQBAJ&q=%22Hy%C3%A4ne+von+Auschwitz%22#v=snippet&q=%22Hy%C3%A4ne%20von%20Auschwitz%22&f=false|title=Vier Stückchen Brot: Ein Hymne an das Leben|publisher=Verlag|ISBN=3641127092|date=2013|accessdate=4 January 2015|author=Magda Hollander-Lafon|pages=95{{ndash}}}}</ref><ref name="WELT">{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article131751631/Sie-waren-Moerderinnen-aus-Gelegenheit.html|title=Die Hyäne von Auschwitz|publisher=DIE WELT|work=Sie waren Mörderinnen aus Gelegenheit|date=30 August 2014|accessdate=4 January 2015|author=Barbara Möller}}</ref><ref name="spiegel">{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/nazi-jaeger-hanns-alexander-auf-der-spur-von-rudolf-hoess-a-986892.html|title=Der Mann, der Rudolf Höß jagte|publisher=Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany|work=KZ-Aufseherin Irma Grese. Die "Hyäne von Auschwitz"|date=2014|accessdate=4 January 2015|author=Sonja Peteranderl}}</ref><ref name="weltwoche">{{cite web|url=http://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2013-41/hitlers-furien-die-weltwoche-ausgabe-412013.html|title=Hitlers Furien|publisher=Die Weltwoche Magazin|work=Grese, die «Hyäne von Auschwitz»|date=2013|accessdate=4 January 2015|author=Pierre Heumann}}</ref>

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[[Category:1923 births]]

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