people executed by hanging
Alfred Trzebinski
nazi physicians | neuengamme concentration camp personnel | people executed by hanging Alfred Trzebinski (born 29 August 1902, died 8 October 1946) was an SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He was condemned to death and executed.
Life
Trzebinski was born in Jutroschin near Posen (now Poznań). After his study and graduation he was a physician in Saxony. Trzebinski was member of the Nazi Party and SS. SS-Stubaf Dr. Trzebinski was camp physician (German: Lagerarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from July 1941 until October 1941, and from October 1941 until September 1943 at the Majdanek camp. He was then transfered to the Neuengamme camp. At Neuengamme camp he was the supervisor for SS-physician Kurt Heißmeyer at the Neuengamme camp. Heißmeier had done medical experiments to Soviet union prisoners of war and children.Emeline Meaker
1883 deaths | 19th century executions by the united states | people executed by hanging | people executed by vermont | people executed for murder | people from burlington, vermontEmeline Lucy Meaker (sometimes reported as Lucy Emeline Meaker) (died March 30, 1883) was the first woman that was legally executed by Vermont. In 1883, Meaker was convicted of and hanged for the murder of her husband's half-sister Alice near Burlington, Vermont.
The crime
Sometime in the spring of 1879, a child welfare worker approached Meaker and her husband to ask if they would consider taking Mr. Meaker’s eight year old half-sister Alice into their home, as she was living in an overcrowded orphanage.Hearn, Daniel Allen, Legal Executions in New England: A comprehensive reference, 1623–1960 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999) pp. 273–274."Mrs. Lucy E. Meaker Still Claims Innocence and Reproaches the Boy Almon", Burlington Free Press and Times, March 30, 1883. Mr. Meaker was offered a stipend of $400 to care for Alice, and so he agreed. Emeline Meaker was not pleased with the arrangement and beat, starved, and otherwise mistreated Alice.