ABSTRACT
Of the thousands of camps scattered throughout occupied Europe, several have become synonymous in the public mind with acertain figure personifying the atrocities perpetrated there. One such is Dr Mengele, “Mr Rampa” of Auschwitz. When it comes to a barely-known camp such as Skarżysko, it is only the former inmates who remember the Jewish “commandanta” of Werk C, Fela Markowiczowa, who became the reigning queen of this kingdom of death. In her life and death, she symbolizes the tragic phenomenon known as “Jewish authorities” during the Holocaust.
