Alice Orlowski
- Bestial Nazi Guard in Majdanek Concentration Camp - Nazi Germany - Holocaust - WW2

7 March 2022

Category: Female Nazi Guards

Alice Orlowski was born on September 30, 1903 in Berlin. After she finished her training to become a guard, she was sent to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland in October, 1942. Here she was considered one of the most brutal guards. Together with Hermine Braunsteiner, another sadistic Nazi female guard, they carried out the killing of women in the gas chambers. Orlowski was notorious for making efficient use of the gas chamber's capacity. When the gas chamber was crammed and a child did not fit inside, she used to throw him or her on the top of the adult women like luggage. Then, she closed the door and killed all the people inside with a poisonous gas named Zyklon B. hen the end of the WW2 was approaching Alice Orlowski changed her behavior. It was probably because she knew she would have to face justice for all the atrocities she had committed at Majdanek and Krakow-Płaszów concentration camp where she used to ill-treat the prisoners, too.

In January 1945 during the death march to Auschwitz concentration camp, she gave comfort to the exhausted prisoners, brought them food and water and she even slept next to them outside on the ground in cold weather. After the war, Orlowski was captured by the Soviets and extradited to Poland. At the Auschwitz Trial, she finally faced justice for her inhuman crimes but unlike her colleagues such as Maria Mandl, she was not sentenced to death but life imprisonment. Her changed behavior in the end of the war saved her from being hanged. Her life imprisonment lasted only 10 years as she was released from prison in 1957. In 1976 when she was facing Third Majdanek trial for her crimes, she died of natural casues at the age of 73.

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