Irma Ida Ilse Grese (October 7th, 1923 – December 13th, 1945) was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen.
She tortured Jewish prisoners including Olga Lengyel who wrote of her experiences in her memoir, Five Chimneys. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Irma Grese randomly beat and tortured prisoners, used her trained & half-starved dogs to attack them, and personally chose who was sent to the gas chambers. Irma Grese randomly shot prisoners, beat women to death, and savagely tortured others with a plaited whip.
After being convicted in the Belsen Trial (held for those in charge of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp), Irma was executed on December 13th, 1945. She has been variously nicknamed The Beast of Belsen, The Beautiful Beast, and Die Hyäne von Auschwitz (The Hyena of Auschwitz).
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