December 17, 1920 - Ewa Paradies
Her tenure as a concentration camp overseer lasted less than a year, yet the testimony against her at the Stutthof trial documented a pattern of deliberate cruelty toward prisoners in her charge — including exposure to freezing temperatures and cold water in winter conditions. She was tried, convicted, and executed in 1946, one of relatively few camp personnel to face formal postwar justice. Her case is a documented instance of how ordinary institutional roles within the Nazi camp system were used to inflict calculated suffering at a personal level.
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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 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 subcamp; and in January 1945, she was moved 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. 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.
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