Elisabeth Lupka

Elisabeth Lupka (October 27, 1902 – January 8, 1949) was a Nazi guard at two camps during World War II.

Life

Lupka was born in Klein-Damner, Germany. She married in 1934, and had no children. She soon divorced, and in 1937 she went to Berlin to work in an aircraft factory.

Camp guard

In 1942 she left her menial job as a laborer and came to Ravensbrück to undergo training as a camp guard. Elisabeth graduated and later became an Aufseherin over several work details. In March 1943, she was assigned to the Auschwitz Birkenau camp in Poland as an Aufseherin then as a Blockfǖhrerin (Block Overseer). There she struck many prisoners with her whip and selected many other for the gas chambers. Elisabeth stayed in the camp until its last evacuations in early January 1945 and accompanied a death march to Loslau. She returned to Ravensbrück in January where she continued her reign of terror.

Arrest

On June 6, 1945, Elizabeth was arrested by Allied troops and sent to an internment camp. On July 6, 1948, after a long investigation, she appeared at a Kraków court for war crimes, mainly the maltreatment of prisoners and her involvement in selections of inmates to the gas chambers. Lupka was found guilty, and on January 8, 1949, was hanged in the Montelupich prison in Kraków aged 46. Her corpse was later sent to Jagiellonian University for use by medical students.

External links

* [http://geocities.com/biskupia/lupka.htm Fraun am Galgen - Elisabeth Lupka]