Elisabeth Becker (concentration camp guard)

Supervisors during the 1st  Stutthof Trial in Danzig from April 25 to May 31, 1946 - First row from left to right: Elisabeth Becker, Gerda Steinhoff , Wanda Klaff  - Second row from left to right: Erna Beilhardt , Jenny Wanda Barkmann

Becker, seated on the right, during the execution

Elisabeth Becker (* July 20, 1923 , † July 4, 1946 in Danzig ) was a German concentration camp guard in the Stutthof concentration camp .

Life

After attending primary school, she was a tram conductor in Gdansk from 1938 to 1940 . She then worked for the Dokendorf company in her home town of Neuteich ( Nowy Staw ) and from 1941 worked as an agricultural assistant for the local government there. Becker wasn't married. Only on September 5, 1944 did she begin her service as an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp (SK-III) and stayed in the concentration camp until the camp was liberated by the Red Army . Their job was to lead prisoners to the gas chamber .

Elisabeth Becker returned to Neuteich. After falling ill with typhus , she was taken to hospital in Gdansk, where she was arrested on April 13, 1945. In the first Stutthof trial she was sentenced to death by hanging on May 31, 1946 . Despite a petition for clemency from the Polish President Bolesław Bierut and a positive court opinion, Elisabeth Becker was hanged publicly on Biskupia Górka ( Bishop's Hill ) together with ten others . Those executed also included the concentration camp guards Gerda Steinhoff , Wanda Klaff , Jenny Wanda Barkmann and Ewa Paradies . Former prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp acted as executioners .

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short curriculum vitae (with photos), http://max.mmvi.de/ssfrauen/elisabeth.htm ( Memento from September 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on Elisabeth Becker