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Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.
In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the
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
ExecutedToday.com 1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp
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Stutthof
Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk) in the territory of the Germ ...
SK-III camp for training as an '' Aufseherin'', or overseer. She soon finished training and became a wardress
A prison officer or corrections officer is a Uniformed services, uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the care, custody, and control of individ ...
. In October 1944, she was reassigned to Stutthof's Bromberg-Ost 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
Lauenburg (), or Lauenburg an der Elbe ( en, Lauenberg on the Elbe), is a town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the northern bank of the river Elbe, east of Hamburg. It is the southernmost town of Schleswig-Holstein ...
subcamp and fled. After she was captured, she was a defendant in the Stutthof trial. 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 kapo
A kapo or prisoner functionary (german: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
Also called "prisoner self-administrat ...
s (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 camps
Aufseherin was the position title for a female guard in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Of the 50,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 5,000 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz an ...
References
Sources
* Daniel Patrick Brown. ''The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System''.Atglen, Pennsylvania
Atglen is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. According to the 2020 Census, its population is 1,311.
History
The area now known as Atglen was originally a wilderness. Native Americans made paths which cut across this are ...
: 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