- Ewa Paradies
Ewa Paradies (
December 17 ,1920 -July 4 ,1946 ) was a Nazi camp overseer.Life
She was born in Lauenburg,
Pomerania (nowLębork ,Poland ), Neuendorferstrasse 100. She was a Protestant Christian. She was not married. In 1935, she leftschool and worked various jobs inWuppertal ,Erfurt and Lauenburg.Camps
In August 1944 she went to
Stutthof SK-III camp for training as anAufseherin . She soon finished training and became a wardress. In October 1944 she was reassigned to theBromberg-Ost subcamp of Stutthof, and in January 1945, back to Stutthof main camp. In April 1945 she accompanied one of the last transports of women prisoners to the Lauenburg subcamp and fled.Arrest
In May 1945 she was found and arrested by Polish officers in Lębork. At the Sztutowo trial, several witnesses told of Paradies abuse. One told the court, "She forced a group of women prisoners, in the dead of winter to undress. Then she poured icy water over them. If they moved then she [Paradies] would beat them." Paradies was found guilty of
murder and sentenced to death. She was hanged onBiskupia Gorka Hill near Gdańsk.External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/biskupia/ewaparadies.htm Ewa Paradies] (German), pictures
* [http://www.geocities.com/biskupia/biskupia.htm Biskupia Gorka (Stolzenberg)] (German), pictures
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