In 1938, Emma became a guard at the Lichtenburg early concentration camp, where she became assistant camp leader under Johanna Langefeld. In 1939 she was assigned to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she served as assistant chief leader, and in October 1942 she became assistant camp leader at Auschwitz II (Birkenau) as an Steamship-Stellvertretende Oberaufseherin. On 1 June 1943, one.