Biskupia Górka
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Biskupia Górka is a part of the city of Gdańsk
in Poland
. Historically, Biskupia Górka had important strategic meaning, since it is a hill close to the main city.
On July 4th 1946, eleven guards of the Stutthof concentration camp
were publicly hanged for what was described as "sadistic abuse of prisoners." Among those hanged were five women: Gerda Steinhoff
, Wanda Klaff
, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
, Ewa Paradies
and Elisabeth Becker
, all of whom had been judged and sentenced during the first trial, at Gdańsk between April 25 and May 31, 1946.
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. Historically, Biskupia Górka had important strategic meaning, since it is a hill close to the main city.
On July 4th 1946, eleven guards of the Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof was the first Nazi concentration camp built outside of 1937 German borders.Completed on September 2, 1939, it was located in a secluded, wet, and wooded area west of the small town of Sztutowo . The town is located in the former territory of the Free City of Danzig, 34 km east of...
were publicly hanged for what was described as "sadistic abuse of prisoners." Among those hanged were five women: Gerda Steinhoff
Gerda Steinhoff
Gerda Steinhoff born in Danzig-Langfuhr , was a Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.-SS career:...
, Wanda Klaff
Wanda Klaff
Wanda Klaff was a Nazi camp overseer.Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski. She finished school in 1938 and began working in a jam factory. This lasted until 1942 when she married Willy Gapes and became a housewife.In 1944 Klaff joined the camp staff at the Stutthof's...
, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a Nazi concentration camp guard.She is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg, Germany. In 1944, she became an Aufseherin in the Stutthof SK-III women's camp, where she brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers...
, Ewa Paradies
Ewa Paradies
Ewa Paradies was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.Paradies was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania , Neuendorferstrasse 100. She was a Protestant Christian and 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...
and Elisabeth Becker
Elisabeth Becker
Elisabeth Becker was a concentration camp guard in World War II.-Life:Becker was born in Neuteich, Free City of Danzig to a German family. In 1936, aged 13, she joined the League of German Girls....
, all of whom had been judged and sentenced during the first trial, at Gdańsk between April 25 and May 31, 1946.