Ewa Paradies

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

She was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania (now Lebork, Poland), Neuendorferstrasse 100. She was a Protestant Christian. She was not married. In 1935, she left school and worked various jobs in Wuppertal, Erfurt and Lauenburg.

In August 1944 she went to Stutthof SK-III camp for training as an Aufseherin. She soon finished training and became a wardress. In October 1944 she was reassigned to the Bromberg-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. In May 1945 she was found and arrested by Polish officers in Lauenburg. At the Stutthof 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 on Biskupia Gorka Hill near Gdańsk.