Murderess/SS Concentration Camp Guard. - According to Richard Clark in his extensive work, "Capital Punishment U.K.", Juana Bormann was said to have been "deeply religious and had performed missionary work before joining the SS and becoming a concentration camp guard". On March 1, 1938, Bormann went to work in the kitchen as a civilian employee at Lichtenburg, the first women's concentration camp. She and the rest of the staff and inmates were transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp when it opened in May 1939. Here she became an Aufseherin (supervisor) . In March 1942 Bormann moved on to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and then in October 1942 she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the women's section. In 1944, Bormann was sent to the satellite camp at Hindenburg, before returning to Ravensbrück in January 1945. In March of that year she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, under the command of commandant Josef Kramer. Like most of the defendants to stand trial for war crimes at Belsen she was arrested at the camp on the day it was liberated. The Belsen Trial as it is now known, was conducted by the British Military at No. 30 Lindentrasse, Lüneburg, Germany. Bormann was charged with various counts and witnesses testified that she assisted in selecting prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers as well as for experiments with Dr. Joseph Mengele and Dr. Fritz Klein. Bormann was also accused of beating prisoners and turning loose her dog on them causing great harm to the prisoners and at least two deaths due to the dogs mauling. Bormann denied all the charges levied against her, admitting only to slapping prisoners with her hand for disciplinary reasons. Bormann was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. English executioner Albert Pierrepoint described Bormann during her last hours when he saw her on the afternoon prior to her execution. Each prisoner had to be weighed to allow Pierrepoint to calculate the correct drop so as to ensure a rapid death. He wrote in his autobiography how Bormann "limped down the corridor" and looked old and haggard. He said she was forty two years old (her accepted birth date puts it at fifty-three), about five foot tall and weighed only 101 pounds. Bormann was trembling as she stepped onto the scales and in German said "I have my feelings". Bormann was transferred to Hamelin jail on Sunday the 9th of December to await execution with the other condemned. The hangings were set for Friday, December the 13th, 1945 and were to be carried out at half hour intervals starting at 9:34 a.m. with Irma Grese, who at 21, was the youngest of the condemned prisoners, followed by Elisabeth Volkenrath at 10:03 a.m. and Juana at 10:38 a.m. (Richard Clark). Her body was at buried in the jail's courtyard until 1954 when it and the other executed Nazis were moved to the Am Wehl cemetery. Her grave as well as the others are unmarked so as to prevent a shrine being erected to honor them and their crimes.