Friederike Schneider

Frederike Schneider was a female guard at several concentration camps and slave labor camps during World War II.

She was born as Frederike (Friedel) Fuhrmann in Vienna, Austria on September 30, 1911.

Some time between 1942 and 1944 she became a camp guard, and was trained at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. After her initial training she became an Aufseherin and was moved to the Babitz (Babice) subcamp where she became a Blockfuhrerin for good conduct. After a brief stint in Babitz, Schneider was called to serve at Auschwitz Birkenau. In November 1944, she accompanied a transport of women to Ravensbruck and stayed there until January 1945. In January, Schneider was again stationed at a subcamp in Holleischen, Germany. The camp was a small subcamp of Flossenburg. Schneider stayed there until the US and Soviet Armies closed in. She then fled home to Vienna. As of 2004 she has never been tried for her crimes during the Holocaust.