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Angelika was a female overseer at three camps during World War II.
Angelika Grass (or Gras) was born in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 1922. In 1944 she volunteered for camp duty, so the SS sent her to Flossenburg to undergo guard training. Her immediate rold was an Aufseherin, or a low ranking female guard. In the summer of 1944 she was selected to be a guard at the newly opened Helmstedt Beendorf III subcamp near Ludwigslust, Germany. There she oversaw 3,000 female prisoners, many of them Jewish and non-Jewish women from Auschwitz, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, and Ravensbruck. In 1945, Angelika was one of several male and female guards to be assigned to Neuengamme camp. There she served as overseer until its evacuation in April 1945. It is unknown if Angelika was one of the thirteen female overseers who guarded on the three ships full of prisoners in Luebeck Harbor, Germany. The British bombed those ships in May killing 1/3 of all the inmates, and half of the SS guards on board.
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