Elisabeth Becker
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Elisabeth Becker was born in Neuteich (Nowy Staw), Poland on 20 July 1923 to a German family. In 1936, she joined the NSDAP and BDM.
In 1938 she became a cook in Danzig. In 1939 the Germans arrived in the city and Elisabeth reportedly adapted successfully. In 1940 she began working for the firm Dokendorfin Neuteich where she worked until 1941 when she became an agriculture assistant in Danzig.
In 1944 the Soviets were near the area, the Germans needed more guards at the nearby concentration camp at Stutthof and Becker was called up for service. She arrived at Stutthof on September 5, 1944 to begin training as an SS Aufseherin. She later worked in the Stutthof women's camp at SK-III.
Becker fled the camp on January 15, 1945 and went back home to Neuteich. On April 13 Polish police arrested and placed her in prison to await trial. The Stutthof Trial began in Danzig on May 31, 1946 with five former SS women and several kapos as defendents. Because Becker had selected women and children for the gas chamber she was sentenced to death. She sent several letters to Polish president Boleslaw Bierut asking for a pardon, claiming her actions hadn't been as severe as Gerda Steinhoff's or Jenny-Wanda Barkmann's. No pardon was issued and she was publicly hanged on 4 July, 1946 at Biskupia Gorka Hill along with several other SS supervisors and kapos.