Karla Mayer

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Karla Mayer was a guard at three Nazi death camps during the Second World War.

Karla Mayer was born Karla Woellert in Friedland, Germany on February 7, 1918. On September 15, 1941 she arrived at Ravensbruck to undergo guard training. In March 1942 she arrived at Auschwitz I camp in Poland. There she gained the title of "Leitern eines Sortierkommandos" (Chief Overseer of the Sorting Kommandos). Karla later went to Majdanek camp near Lublin, and when the camp was evacuated in early 1944, she arrived back at Auschwitz. Her fate is unknown.

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Brown, Daniel Patrick (2002). The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-1444-0.