Elisabeth Lupka

Elisabeth Lupka (born October 27, 1902 in Klein Dammer ; † January 8, 1949 in Krakow ) was a German guard in various concentration camps .

biography

Lupka had been married since 1934, the childless marriage later divorced. From 1937 she worked in the aviation industry . From 1942 she completed a course to become a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and worked there until the end of February 1943. From the beginning of March 1943 to January 1945 she acted as a guard in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , where she worked as a command officer in the reception building. From there she accompanied an evacuation march in January 1945 to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was also employed as a guard until April 1945.

After the end of the war, Lupka was arrested on June 6, 1945 by members of the Allied troops and sent to an internment camp. After her extradition to Poland, Lupka was charged with mistreating prisoners and taking part in selections for the gas chamber in Auschwitz-Birkenau before a district court in Krakow . On July 6, 1948, she was to death by the strand convicted and on January 8, 1949 Krakow Montelupich Prison executed . Her body served as an illustrative material for medical students at the Jagielloński University Hospital in Kraków.

literature

• Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Web links

• Short biography and photo of Elisabeth Lupka ( Memento from May 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )