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как у них там всё сложно: жена жида - бывшая надсмотрщица концлагеря Оригинал сообщения австрийской Венской Газеты (Wiener Zeitung): http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefa KZ-Aufseherin als Jüdin getarnt Elfriede Lina Rinkel. Foto: ap Wiesenthal-Zentrum fordert Gerichtsverfahren. Berlin. (rm) Von 1959, als sie den aus Deutschland über Schanghai in die USA emigrierten deutschen Juden Fred Rinkel heiratete, lebte die heute 83-jährige ehemalige Ravensbrücker KZ-Aufseherin Elfriede Lina Rinkel, geborene Huth, getarnt in San Francisco. Gemeinsam mit ihrem im Jänner 2004 verstorbenen Mann widmete sie sich der Arbeit für jüdische Wohltätigkeitsvereine und erwarb sogar ein Doppelgrab auf dem jüdischen Friedhof von San Francisco, obwohl sie selbst nie zur jüdischen Religion übergetreten ist. Vor wenigen Wochen haben die US-Behörden die wahre Identität der Frau, die nie um die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft angesucht hatte, herausbekommen. Rinkel bestritt auch gar nicht, vom Juni 1944 bis zur Befreiung des Frauenkonzentrationslagers Ende April 1945 Aufseherin in Ravensbrück gewesen zu sein. "Ich habe persönlich niemand getötet, es war mein Job", sagte sie den amerikanischen Polizeibehörden. Dokumente der US-Justizbehörden belegen, dass die Frau abgerichtete Hunde auf die Häftlinge hetzte. Bei ihrer Einwanderung in die USA hatte Rinkel 1959 verschwiegen, dass sie als KZ-Aufseherin gearbeitet hatte. Jetzt widersetzte sie sich auch nicht einer Abschiebung nach Deutschland. Ihre Verwandten in den USA, unter ihnen ein Bruder, den sie hatte nachkommen lassen, fielen aus allen Wolken, als sie von der Vergangenheit Elfriede Rinkels erfuhren. Der Chef des Jerusalemer Simon-Wiesenthal-Zentrums, Efraim Zuroff, fordert wegen Kriegsverbrechen ein Gerichtsverfahren gegen die Frau. Eine Sprecherin des Justizministeriums in Berlin sagte, die deutsche Bundesregierung sei noch nicht offiziell über die Ausweisung Rinkels informiert worden. Sollte es einen Verdacht auf ein Verbrechen geben, würden aber Ermittlungen eingeleitet. Printausgabe vom Samstag, 23. September 2006 Другие сообщения: 19.9.2006 - Шпигель http://www.spiegel.de/dertag/pda/avantg PANORAMA 19. September 2006, 22:32 Ungewöhnliche Abschiebung: USA weisen Ex-KZ-Aufseherin aus Fast 50 Jahre lang lebte die Deutsche Elfriede Rinkel unbehelligt in den USA. Dann stellte sich heraus, dass sie im NS-Vernichtungslager Ravensbrück als Aufseherin gearbeitet hatte. Die US-Behörden handelten umgehend und ordneten ihre Ausweisung an. Washington - Die 83-jährige Elfriede Rinkel habe seit 1959 in den Vereinigten Staaten in Kalifornien gelebt, teilte das US-Justizministerium am Dienstag in Washington mit. Dabei habe sie aber über ihre NS-Vergangenheit gelogen. Elfriede Rinkel geb. Huth, die nach wie vor die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft hat, sei Anfang des Monats nach Deutschland zurückgekehrt, nachdem den Behörden ihr Vorleben in der NS-Zeit bekannt geworden sei und ein Gericht sie zum Verlassen des Landes bis Ende September aufgefordert habe. Rinkel sei von Juni 1944 bis zur Aufgabe des Lagers im April 1945 Aufseherin in Ravensbrück gewesen. Sie habe bei der "Erfüllung ihrer Aufgaben" einen trainierten Hund benutzt, teilte das US-Justizministerium weiter mit. Im KZ Ravensbrück hielten die Nazis hauptsächlich Frauen gefangen und zwangen sie - oft mit Hilfe von Hunden - zu schwersten Arbeiten. "KZ-Wärter wie Elfriede Rinkel spielten bei der entsetzlichen Misshandlung unschuldiger Opfer durch das Nazi-Regime eine bedeutende Rolle", heißt es in der Mitteilung des Ministeriums. Das Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück in der Nähe der Stadt Fürstenberg an der Havel rund 100 Kilometer nördlich von Berlin gilt als das größte Frauenkonzentrationslager Deutschlands. Das Lager war von Dezember 1938 bis April 1939 von Häftlingen des KZ Sachsenhausen errichtet worden. Im April 1941 kam ein kleines Männerlager hinzu. Das Lager Ravensbrück hatte bis zu 70 Außenlager, in denen durch Häftlinge Sklavenarbeit für die Rüstungsindustrie verrichtet werden musste. Insgesamt waren in Ravensbrück mehr als 130.000 Frauen und 20.000 Männer interniert. Ende 1944 wurde in dem Lager eine Gaskammer sowie ein Richtplatz gebaut, es wurde zum Vernichtungslager. Insgesamt kamen bis zu 50.000 der Insassen ums Leben, viele von ihnen durch Unterernährung und Krankheit. Andere starben in den Gaskammern oder bei grausamen medizinischen Experimenten. Am 30. April 1945 wurde das KZ von der Sowjetarmee befreit. fok/AFP/dpa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Ri Wikipedia Elfriede Rinkel (born July 14, 1922 in Leipzig, Germany as Elfriede Huth) was a guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. She worked at the camp from June 1944 until April 1945 handling an SS-trained guard dog. She claims that she did not use her dog as a weapon against prisoners, and that she did not join the Nazi party. She left Germany for the United States and was admitted as an immigrant on or around September 21, 1959 in San Francisco, California. At a German-American Club in San Francisco she met German Jew Fred William Rinkel and they married. He died in 2004 and probably never learned of her past. On September 1, 2006 Elfriede Rinkel was deported to Germany under a settlement agreement signed in June 2006 after being charged by a federal law requiring removal of aliens who took part in acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution filed by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the United States Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/53666 BBC: Last Updated: Thursday, 21 September 2006, 10:40 GMT 11:40 UK US widow deported over Nazi past An elderly German woman who kept secret her role as a Nazi concentration camp guard for more than 60 years has been deported from the US, it has emerged. Elfriede Rinkel, who was married to a Jewish man, was described as a "nice, sweet lady" by those who knew her. Mrs Rinkel, 84, never revealed the grim details of her past during the 47 years she lived in San Francisco. But earlier this month US officials uncovered her role as a guard during WWII, and deported her back to Germany. Mrs Rinkel's husband Fred was a German Jew who arrived in the US after escaping the Holocaust. He died in 2004, never learning of his wife's secret. 'Horrific mistreatment' According to the US Department of Justice, Mrs Rinkel served as a guard at the Ravensbruck women's labour camp in Germany from June 1944 until April 1945, when it was abandoned by the Nazis. There she worked with an SS-trained attack dog, but was not a member of the Nazi party. Attack dogs were used to march malnourished inmates back and forth from slave labour sites each day, the department added. An estimated 90,000 people died at the camp during WWII. "Concentration camp guards such as Elfriede Rinkel played a vital role in the Nazi regime's horrific mistreatment of innocent victims," Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher said. "This case reflects the government's unwavering commitment to remove Nazi persecutors from this country." Mrs Rinkel is said to have left Germany for America in 1959, but never applied for citizenship. Her lawyer, Alison Dixon, believed her marriage to a Jew could have "been a type of atonement for her". "She married a Jewish man, and she gave to Jewish charities," she told the LA Times. Relatives were said to be shocked by the revelation, which emerged after court documents were released on Tuesday. Mrs Rinkel has also handed back a burial plot she had reserved for herself next to her husband's grave. Gene Kaufman, the director of the Sinai Memorial Chapel where the grave lies, said: "She was just such a pleasant-looking lady and very small. Such a nice, sweet lady who seemed to have a very loving relationship with her husband." Mrs Rinkel was deported on 1 September under a settlement agreement with the US government. Under federal law in the US, immigrants who participated in acts of Nazi-led persecution must be deported. http://community.seattletimes.nwsou The Seattle Times: Thursday, September 21, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM "Sweet lady" surprise: Nazi prison-guard past By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Elfriede Rinkel lived alone in a tiny, top-floor apartment in one of the tougher sections of San Francisco. At 84, she was short and a bit stout. Diabetes took the sight in one eye; arthritis left her leaning heavily on a cane. Her husband, Fred, died. He was the love of her life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter at some of the city's larger hotels and was active in Jewish activities. He was buried in a Jewish cemetery outside the city. He had been gone just a short while when two officials from the Justice Department in Washington knocked on her door. They confronted her with a terrible secret that she had managed to keep from Fred all these years. In Germany during World War II, before she married, Rinkel had worked as a guard at Ravensbrück, a Nazi concentration camp. During the year she worked at the slave-labor prison for women, more than 10,000 women died. Some succumbed to starvation and disease. Others were gassed. More died after cruel medical experiments. Some died from sheer exhaustion. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the woman with the pleasant smile and the German accent had been deported to Germany. She admitted she had lied on her U.S. visa application. Her lawyer, Allison Dixon, said Rinkel never told her husband. Always, she kept quiet. "He did not know," the lawyer said, "because all these years she was totally embarrassed." Washington officials, however, said she offered no expression of remorse about her past and did not fight deportation. "An affront" to survivors The government caught up with a woman who expected, perhaps, soon to join her husband in the Eternal Home Cemetery in Colma, south of San Francisco. The double gravestone was there, with the Star of David above their names. Instead, Rinkel will be remembered as the only woman to be caught and deported in more than 100 completed cases of Nazi persecutors who lied their way into the United States. Matching Ravensbrück guard rosters with U.S. immigration documents — about 70,000 names have been studied since the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) opened in 1979 — they lit on Elfriede Huth, her maiden name. She had been born in 1922 in Leipzig, Germany. She went to Ravensbrück in 1944 and left a year later as the war ended, the site abandoned by fleeing Nazis. She married Fred William Rinkel, a German Jewish refugee from the war. In 1959, she applied for a U.S. visa but failed to include on the form her time at Ravensbrück. Eventually, the Justice Department traced her to the five-story apartment building in lower Nob Hill near the Tenderloin. Despite Rinkel's age, "her presence in the United States nevertheless was an affront to surviving Holocaust victims who have made new homes in this country," said OSI Director Eli Rosenbaum. According to Rosenbaum, Rinkel said she volunteered to be a dog handler at the camp because it paid better than her factory job. But she insisted she never used her dog as a weapon against the prisoners and claimed she never joined the Nazi Party. And she said she never applied for U.S. citizenship because she feared U.S. immigration authorities would learn of her time at Ravensbrück. "Trying to atone"? Dixon, her San Francisco lawyer, said her client had tried to remake her life and never thought she would be tripped up so late in her years. "She was trying to atone for actions in the past," Dixon said. "She married a Jewish man, and she gave to Jewish charities. "And she always believed there was a certain coercion involved in what she did at the camp. She insisted that she had zero contact with the actual prisoners, that she just walked the camp perimeter." Knowing her fate, six months ago Rinkel quietly set about putting her affairs in order. One task was to return once more to the mortuary, and to inform the staff that she would soon be "leaving the area." She wanted to sell back her burial plot next to her husband. "So we took it back," said Gene Kaufman, director of the Sinai Memorial Chapel. "She was just such a pleasant-looking lady and very small. Such a nice sweet lady who seemed to have a very loving relationship with her husband." Sometimes, Kaufman said, he would bump into the childless couple at Jewish events. Everyone seemed to know, though, that she was not Jewish, and had no other religious faith. The distinction never seemed to rise as a problem between the couple. Yet, "sometimes it did seem like their life together was from someplace else," said Kathryn Allen-Katz, who also chatted with her at the funeral chapel. "They lived in their own little island in a not-too-good part of town and they kept to themselves." At the apartment building on Bush Street, Gunvant Shah, who met the Rinkels in 1976, described a couple that sang German songs late at night, danced together, and sometimes fought loudly, prompting complaints from neighbors. They lived "a modest life," Shah said, with no car, but often strolled together in the evenings, dressed elegantly. "Mr. Rinkel would hold her by the arm. They would walk together, proud and joyful." She was given until Sept. 30 to leave the United States. She left Sept. 1. Some distant relations took her in, and she reported to the U.S. Consulate office in Frankfurt, Germany, that she was back home. |
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