Lieschen Rech

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Lieschen Rech was a female guard at several concentration camps from 1944 until April 1945.

Lieschen (Liesl) Anna Luise Rech was born in Oranienburg, Germany on January 10, 1923. In 1940 she married and received the name Leischen Laskowski. In 1944 she was posted to Flossenburg concentration camp to be trained as a camp guard. Eventually the overseer served in various camps; Mittweida, Oranienburg Auer III, Ravensbruck, Gelsenkirchen, Buchenwald, and last in the Buchenwald subcamp at Benefeld, Germany. In April 1945 she fled the camp and was never apprehended. Lieschen Rech has never been tried for war crimes.