Stefania Brandstätter

The Second World War - Criminals - Bratislava
Gestapo - Jewish collaborators

Stefania Brandstätter (from Rottenberger home) - a graduate of a Hebrew gymnasium, coming from a respectable merchant family, a friend of Julian Appel i Maurycy Diamand - was a Jewish woman living in the Krakow ghetto, who had a weakness for Gestapo officers from the beginning of the war. Commander Rudolf KörnerRudolf Körner was the head of the Gestapo in Kraków, stationed at 2 Pomorska Street. He was famous for his cruelty and effectiveness in fighting the Polish underground. Colleagues from Sicherheitspolizei called him "Big Theodore". He was a professional policeman from the Dresden Sicherheitspolizei, who came to Kraków in 1939 with a group of colleagues to fulfill an intelligence mission. His experience with the Dresden police quickly secured him a high position in the Gestapo., who regularly visited her apartment, liked her especially. Shea had a phoneline in her appartment, so she could freely contact Gestapo office at PomorskaDuring World War II, the Gestapo headquarters and the temporary detention facility located in the basement were located on Pomorska Street. The testimony of those times are the inscriptions made by prisoners on the walls of the cells. Currently, it houses a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow. street.

She cared for her lover, and when too loud conversations were coming from her neighbor's apartment, she was able to sneak up and say without shame that the commandant is at her apartment at the moment, resting after hard work. Therefore, noisy neighbors should disperse or they will see what Auschwitz is. Two of her school friends, Polish women from the seminar of S. Munnich in Krakow, Anna Maria Heydel and Izabela Czecz, who knew about her contacts with the Germans, after they announced that they do not want to deal with such scum, they were arrested, sent to prison in [Montelupich], and later to Auschwitz(German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers and crematories; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of extermination of Poles and the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question. . After the arrest of Izabela Czecz, who had the misfortune to be the mentioned neighbor, Brandstätter took over her apartment with all the furnishings and fur collection. But even then, she was not satisfied with the profit. She went to Izabela's mother and demanded 50,000 zlotys in exchange for her daughter's release.

Brandstätter could never complain of poverty. Her best schoolmate and best friend from the pre-war years - Zofia Weindling - remembers Stefania, who boasted about her valuables and contacts, often inviting her to expensive restaurants. When Zofia Weindling asked her friend for help in buying a ticket to Warsaw, she sent her to Natan Weitzman. Weitzman, who was in the service of the Gestapo, handed it over to the police. Zofia Weindling was detained first in Pomorska Street, and then at [Montelupich]. Körner himself interrogated her, who had all information about the arrested. After a month, beaten and tortured, she was sent to PłaszówPłaszów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland. Most of the prisoners were Polish Jews. Many prisoners died because of executions, forced labor, and the poor conditions in the camp. The camp was evacuated in January 1945, before the Red Army's liberation of the area on 20 January. , and then to the labor camp in Skarżysko.

She wandered on the Aryan side of the city in search of Jewish children hidden there by Poles. When she found a toddler with a Semitic appearance, she asked him about his parents, bribing him with sweets. The unexpected child revealed the addresses of the real parents. Brandstätter either handed them over to the Gestapo or blackmailed the victims.

Wanted poster for Stefania Brandstätter - a hunter of Poles and Jews

She eventually immigrated to New York. There, she probably took the surname of her new husband and lived to a quiet old age.

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