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Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a
For this and other brutalities, including causing the deaths of some prisoners, Paradies was sentenced to death. She was publicly executed by short-drop hanging on 4 July 1946 with 10 other Stutthof guards and kapos (five women and six men in all); Paradies was the last of the women to hang.https://web.archive.org/web/20080125234730/http://geocities.com/biskupia/biskupia.htm
ExecutedToday.com 1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp
(many photos) 1920 births 1946 deaths Executed German women People from Lębork People from the Province of Pomerania Stutthof trials executions Executed people from Pomeranian Voivodeship Female guards in Nazi concentration camps Filmed executions Women sentenced to death Publicly executed people {{Germany-bio-stub People executed for crimes against humanity
Nazi concentration camp
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps, (officially) or (more commonly). The Nazi concentration camps are distinguished from other types of Nazi camps such as forced-labor camps, as well as concen ...
overseer.
In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the Stutthof SK-III camp for training as an '' Aufseherin'', or overseer. She soon finished training and became a wardress. In October 1944, she was reassigned to Stutthof's Bromberg-Ost
Bromberg-Ost (german: Konzentrationslager Bromberg-Ost) was the female subcamp of the German Nazi concentration camp KL Stutthof between 1944-1945, set up in the city of Bydgoszcz during the later stages of World War II. The mostly Jewish women ...
subcamp, and in January 1945, back to the main Stutthof camp.
In April 1945, Paradies accompanied one of the last transports of women prisoners to the Lauenburg subcamp and fled. After she was captured, she was a defendant in the Stutthof trial
The Stutthof trials were a series of war crime tribunals held in postwar Poland for the prosecution of Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials, responsible for the murder of up to 85,000 prisoners during the occupation of Poland by Nazi G ...
. One witness testified:She ordered a group of female prisoners to undress in the freezing cold of winter, and then doused them with ice cold water. When the women moved, Paradies beat them.
Execution
For this and other brutalities, including causing the deaths of some prisoners, Paradies was sentenced to death. She was publicly executed by short-drop hanging on 4 July 1946 with 10 other Stutthof guards and kapos (five women and six men in all); Paradies was the last of the women to hang.https://web.archive.org/web/20080125234730/http://geocities.com/biskupia/biskupia.htm
See also
* Female guards in Nazi concentration campsReferences
Sources
* Daniel Patrick Brown. ''The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System''. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2002. p. 288; * Jack G. Morrison: ''Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1939–45''. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000. p. 380; * Rochelle G. Saidel: ''The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp''. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. p. 336;External links
ExecutedToday.com 1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp
(many photos) 1920 births 1946 deaths Executed German women People from Lębork People from the Province of Pomerania Stutthof trials executions Executed people from Pomeranian Voivodeship Female guards in Nazi concentration camps Filmed executions Women sentenced to death Publicly executed people {{Germany-bio-stub People executed for crimes against humanity