 All the women prisoners were later shipped out to one of Buchenwald's many female satellite camps in Sömmerda, Buttelstedt, Mühlhausen, Gotha, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Lippstadt, Weimar, Magdeburg, and Penig, to name a few.No female guards were permanently stationed at Buchenwald.Ilse Koch served as head supervisor ("Oberaufseherin") of 22 other female guards and hundreds of women prisoners in the main camp.