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Princess Mafalda of Savoy (19 November 1902 – 28 August 1944) was the second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Elena of Montenegro. In 1925, at the age of 22, she married the Landgrave of Hesse, Philipp. In 1943, during World War II, she was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where she died. [1]
Jul 4, 2023 · In August 1944, an ammunition factory at the camp was bombed, killing 400 hundred prisoners. Mafalda was badly hurt after being buried in the rubble and received severe burns. Her arm became...
Sep 18, 2021 · Mafalda’s husband was still alive and was being held at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and later Dachau. After the war’s end, he was held prisoner by the Allies but was eventually released. He died in 1980.
Mar 4, 2015 · Mafalda was in Bulgaria consoling her sister after the sudden death of her husband, Tsar Boris III (who maybe was poisoned by Hitler, who knows – that’s another story). When Mafalda heard about the separate peace, she must have freaked out. What would happen to her family? To her country?
Mar 15, 2024 · The imprisonment of Princess Mafalda of Savoy was a stark departure from her life of royal engagements and philanthropy. She was initially detained in Rome before being transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp, a place synonymous with the horrors of the Holocaust.
Aug 27, 2019 · In late August 1944, the Allies bombed an ammunition factory inside Buchenwald, when she was seriously wounded, and her arm became infected before it was amputated. Princess Mafalda bled profusely during the operation and never regained consciousness, dying during the night of August 26–27.
Mar 21, 2017 · She died due to significant blood loss from the amputation. Princess Mafalda’s body was sent, unclothed, to the crematorium where Father Joseph Thyl would take her body, cover her up, and have her cremated. He also took a lock of her hair, which he smuggled out to be sent to her German family.
