Elisabeth Lupka was a Nazi guard at two camps during the Nazi Regime .

Elisabeth was born on October 27, 1902 in Damner, Germany. She married in 1934, and had no children. She soon got divorced and in 1937 she went to Berlin to work in an aicraft factory. In 1942 she left her menial job as a laborer and came to Ravensbruck to undergo training as a camp guard. Elisabeth graduated and later became an Aufseherin over several work details. In March 1943, Elisabeth was assigned to the Auschwitz Birkenau camp in Poland as an Aufseherin. There she struck many prisoners with her whip and selected many other for the gas chambers. Elisabeth stayed in the camp until its last evacuations in early January 1945 and accompanied a death march to Loslau. She returned to Ravensbruck in January where she continued her reign of terror. On June 6, 1945, Elizabeth was arrested by Allied troops and sent to a internment camp. On July 6, 1948, after a long investigation, she appeared at a Krakow court for war crimes, mainly the maltreatment of prisoners and her involvement in selctions of inmates to the gas chambers. Elisabeth Lupka was found guilty, and on January 8, 1949, she was hanged in the Montelupich prison in Krakow. Her body was then sent to the Jagiellonski University and used by medical students.

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• Fraun am Galgen - Elisabeth Lupka