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Maria Mandl

1912 - 1948

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Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Mandl has received more than 832,455 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Maria Mandl is the 2,556th most popular politician (down from 2,102nd in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Austria (down from 155th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Austrian Politician.

Maria Mandl was a German-Austrian woman who claimed to have been the only survivor of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Mandl was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for over three years, where she was subjected to forced labor, starvation, and torture. In 1945, she was liberated by the Soviet army.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maria Mandl ranks 2,556 out of 19,576Before her are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Alexander Ypsilantis, Musa ibn Nusayr, Léon Gambetta, Fusu, and Mursili I. After her are Bachir Gemayel, Emperor Nakamikado, Thomas Palaiologos, Julius Nyerere, Christopher II of Denmark, and Louis Desaix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Maria Mandl ranks 34Before her are Konrad Emil Bloch, Lawrence Durrell, Karl Malden, Edward Mills Purcell, Juan Pujol García, and Leonid Kantorovich. After her are Alois Brunner, Isser Harel, Pierre Boulle, Chien-Shiung Wu, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland. Among people deceased in 1948, Maria Mandl ranks 25Before her are Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, Ruth Benedict, Karl Gebhardt, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After her are Arthur Liebehenschel, Kurt Schwitters, John J. Pershing, Georges Bernanos, Hugo Boss, and Umberto Giordano.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Maria Mandl ranks 176 out of 1,424Before her are Lothar Rendulic (1887), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Hermann Oberth (1894), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), and Alfred Schütz (1899). After her are Josef Stefan (1835), Alois Brunner (1912), Eric Kandel (1929), Karl Seitz (1869), Otto of Freising (1114), and Mercédès Jellinek (1889).

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