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{{Short description|Nazi concentration camp official (1920–1946)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Ewa Paradies
| image             = Biskupia Gorka executions - 18 - Paradies.jpg
| alt               = 
| caption           = Ewa Paradies after her execution
| birth_name        = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1920|12|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Lębork]], [[Weimar Republic]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1946|07|04|1920|12|17|df=yes}}
| death_place       = [[Biskupia Górka]], [[Gdańsk]], [[Provisional Government of National Unity|Republic of Poland]]
| death_cause       = [[Execution by hanging]]
| occupation        = Guards of the [[Stutthof concentration camp]]
| years_active      = 
| conviction_penalty = [[Capital punishment in Poland|Death]]
| conviction        = [[Crimes against humanity]]
| trial             = Stutthof trials
| motive            = [[Nazism]]
| party             = [[Nazi Party]]
}}

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

In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the [[Stutthof concentration camp|Stutthof]] SK-III camp for training as an ''[[Female guards in Nazi concentration camps#Supervision levels and ranks|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. {{citation needed|date=May 2014}} 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. When the women moved, Paradies beat them."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hillenbrand|first=Klaus|date=2021-09-26|title=Prozess zum Konzentrationslager Stutthof: Die Schuld der Sekretärin|language=de|work=Die Tageszeitung: taz|url=https://taz.de/!5795726/|access-date=2021-09-26|issn=0931-9085}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wynn |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwI2EAAAQBAJ&dq=Ewa+Paradies&pg=PT181 |title=Holocaust: The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities |date=2020-04-19 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=978-1-5267-2822-7 |language=en}}</ref>

== Execution ==
[[File:Biskupia Gorka executions - 14 - Barkmann, Paradies, Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff (left to right).jpg|thumb|Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by [[Hanging#Short drop|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]].]]

As punishment for her brutalities, including causing the deaths of some prisoners, Paradies was sentenced to death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schwertfeger |first=Ruth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfRgEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ewa+Paradies&pg=PA177 |title=A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof |date=2022-02-24 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-350-27403-7 |pages=177 |language=en}}</ref> She was publicly executed by [[Hanging#Short drop|short-drop hanging]] on [[Biskupia Górka]] Hill near [[Gdańsk]] on 4 July 1946 with ten other Stutthof guards and [[kapo]]s (five women and six men in all); Paradies was the last woman to hang.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hinrichtung von Kriegsverbrechern |url=http://geocities.com/biskupia/biskupia.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125234730/http://geocities.com/biskupia/biskupia.htm |archive-date=25 January 2008}}</ref>
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== See also ==
{{Portal|Biography|Germany}}
* [[Female guards in Nazi concentration camps]]

== References ==
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== Sources ==
* Daniel Patrick Brown. ''The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System''. [[Atglen, Pennsylvania]]: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2002. p. 288; {{ISBN|0-7643-1444-0}}
* Jack G. Morrison: ''Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1939–45''. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000. p. 380; {{ISBN|1-55876-218-3}}
* [[Rochelle Saidel|Rochelle G. Saidel]]: ''The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp''. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. p.&nbsp;336; {{ISBN|0-299-19860-X}}

== External links ==
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*[http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/04/1946-stutthof-concentration-camp-jenny-wanda-barkmann-gerda-steinhoff-johann-paul/ ExecutedToday.com 1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp]
*[http://www.geocities.ws/epjacobs4/biskupiae.htm Death on the gallows] (many photos)

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[[Category:People from the Province of Pomerania]]
[[Category:Stutthof trials executions]]
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[[Category:Female guards in Nazi concentration camps]]


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