In the early hours of 26 March she set off again by train, this time taking with her 1000 prisoners to work as Kapos and a small troop of women guards. We have little information about the guards who left for Auschwitz that day, but of the fourteen named later by Langefeld, several were notorious brutes. Margot Drechsel took a leading role in the round-ups for the Bernburg gas chambers and Elfriede Vollrath, a Fürstenberg woman, was known as a beater, as was twenty-three-year-old Elisabeth Volkenrath.
