She ran as far as the United States, to a marriage with an American and a home in Maspeth, Queens.
But Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan couldn't hide indefinitely and, finally found out, she was stripped of American citizenship in 1971 and deported in 1973. And last week, after a five-year trial, she was convicted of murder as a guard in the Maidanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland, during World War II. Seven other former guards were convicted with her, but of lesser offenses. They got relatively light sentences; Mrs. Ryan got life in prison.