Ewa Paradies

Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.

In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the Stutthof SK-III camp for training as an Aufseherin, or overseer.

[citation needed] In April 1945, Paradies accompanied one of the last transports of women prisoners to the Lauenburg subcamp and fled.

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.

[3] She was publicly executed by short-drop hanging on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946 with ten other Stutthof guards and kapos (five women and six men in all); Paradies was the last woman to hang.

Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging . In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Jenny-Wanda Barkmann , Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker , Wanda Klaff , and Gerda Steinhoff .