List of Sobibor extermination camp personnel
At any given point in time, the personnel at Sobibor extermination camp included 18-25 German and Austrian SS officers[1] and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin.[2][3] Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.[4]
SS personnel
[edit]| Name | Rank | Function and notes | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
Kommandants | |||
| Franz Stangl | SS-Obersturmführer | First lieutenant, 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942 transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp | [5] [6] |
| Franz Reichleitner | SS-Obersturmführer | First lieutenant, 1 September 1942 – 17 October 1943;[7][better source needed] promoted to captain (Hauptsturmführer) after Himmler's visit on 12 February 1943 | [6] |
Deputy kommandants | |||
| Gustav Wagner | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, deputy commandant (Quartermaster, sergeant major of the camp) | [5] [6] |
| Johann Niemann | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant, deputy commandant, killed in the revolt | [5] [6] [8] |
| Karl Frenzel | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) | [5] [6] |
| Hermann Michel | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, deputy commandant, gave speeches to trick condemned prisoners into entering gas chambers | [5] [6] [9] |
Gas chamber executioners | |||
| Erich Bauer | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, operated gas chambers | [5] [6] |
| Kurt Bolender | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, gas chambers' operator | [5] [6] |
Other staff officers | |||
| Heinrich Barbl | SS-Rottenführer | Private first class, pipes for the gas chambers (from Action T4) | [6][10] |
| Ernst Bauch | Committed suicide in December 1942 on vacation in Berlin from his Sobibor duty | [6] | |
| Rudolf Beckmann | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Gerhardt Börner | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant | [11] |
| Paul Bredow | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal, managed the "Lazarett" killing station | [6] |
| Max Bree | Killed in the revolt | [6] | |
| Arthur Dachsel | Police sergeant, transferred from Belzec in 1942, burning of corpses (Sonnenstein) | [5] [6] | |
| Werner Karl Dubois | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant | [5] [6] |
| Herbert Floss | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant | [6] |
| Erich Fuchs | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant | [6] [11] |
| Friedrich Gaulstich | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Anton Getzinger | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, killed in an accident with a hand grenade in September 1943, several weeks before the revolt | [6] |
| Hubert Gomerski | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal | [5] [6] |
| Siegfried Graetschus | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (2/2), killed in the revolt | [5] [6] |
| Ferdinand "Ferdl" Grömer | Austrian cook, helped also with gassings | [6] | |
| Paul Johannes Groth | Supervised sorting of clothes in Lager II | [5][12] | |
| Lorenz Hackenholt | SS-Hauptscharführer | First sergeant | |
| Josef Hirtreiter | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, transferred from Treblinka in October 1943 for a short while | [7][better source needed] |
| Franz Hödl | [5] [6] | ||
| Jakob Alfred Ittner | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant | [5] [6] |
| Robert Jührs | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal | [5] |
| Aleks Kaizer | [5] | ||
| Rudolf "Rudi" Kamm | [6] | ||
| Johann Klier | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant | [5] [6] [8] |
| Fritz Konrad | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Erich Lachmann | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (1/2) | [5] [6] |
| Karl Emil Ludwig | [5] [6] | ||
| Willi Mentz | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal, transferred from Treblinka for a short time in December 1943 | [5] |
| Adolf Müller | [6] | ||
| Walter Anton Nowak | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [5] [6] |
| Wenzel Fritz Rehwald | [5] [6] | ||
| Karl Richter | [6] | ||
| Paul Rost | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant | [7][better source needed] |
| Walter "Ryba" (real name: Hochberg) | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Klaus Schreiber | [8] | ||
| Hans-Heinz Friedrich Karl Schütt | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant | [5] [6] |
| Thomas Steffl | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Ernst Stengelin | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal, killed in the revolt | [6] |
| Heinrich Unverhau | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal | [5] [6] |
| Josef Vallaster | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Otto Weiss | Commandant of the Bahnhof-kommando at Lager I before Frenzel | [6] | |
| Wilhelm "Willie" Wendland | [5] [6] | ||
| Franz Wolf | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, brother of Josef Wolf (below) | [5] [6] |
| Josef Wolf | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Ernst Zierke | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal | [5] |
Wachmänner guards (Soviet POW's) | |||
Soviet prisoners of war
[edit]- Ivan Klatt[8][13]
- Emanuel Schultz[8]
- B. Bielakow[5][8]
- Ivan Nikiforow[5][8]
- Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev[14]
- J. Zajcew[5][8]
- Ivan Demjanjuk[15] (alleged; conviction pending appeal not upheld by German criminal court)[16][better source needed]
- Emil Kostenko[8]
- M. Matwiejenko[5][8]
- W. Podienko[5][8]
- Fiodor Tichonowski[5][8]
- Iwan Karakasz[17] (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
- Kaszewacki[18] (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
- Wiktor Kisiljew[19] (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)
- Wasyl Zischer[19] (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)
References
[edit]- ^ Schelvis 2007, p. 245.
- ^ Bem 2015, p. 122.
- ^ Schelvis 2007, pp. 33–36.
- ^ Bem 2015, p. 109.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Sobibor − The Forgotten Revolt (Internet Archive). Webpage featuring first-person account of Holocaust survivor and prisoner age 16, Thomas Blatt.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq Jules Schelvis & Dunya Breur. "Biographies of SS-men – Sobibor Interviews". Sobiborinterviews.nl. NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The core of this website consists of thirteen interviews with survivors of the uprising on 14 October 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp, originally recorded in 1983 and 1984 forty years after the fact.
- ^ a b c Lest we forget (14 March 2004), "Extermination camp Sobibor". Archived from the original on 7 March 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2005.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) The Holocaust. Retrieved on 17 May 2013. - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Chris Webb; Carmelo Lisciotto; Victor Smart (2009). "Sobibor Death Camp". HolocaustResearchProject.org. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.
- ^ Nizkor Web Site Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 9 April 2009
- ^ Robin O'Neil (2009). "6". Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide. JewishGen.org. ISBN 978-0-9764759-3-4.
- ^ a b Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. ISBN 1-56852-133-2.
- ^ Involved at KZ Sobibor and KZ Belzec. Disappeared at the end of the war -fate unknown. Officially declared dead by a German court in 1951 at the request of his wife
- ^ "Survivors of the revolt – Sobibor Interviews". sobiborinterviews.nl.
- ^ "Interrogation of Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev Sobibor Death Camp Wachman - www.HolocaustResearchProject.org". holocaustresearchproject.org.
- ^ BBC News (12 May 2011). "John Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi death camp murders". BBC News. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ "Convicted Nazi criminal Demjanjuk deemed innocent in Germany over technicality". Haaretz.com. 23 March 2012.
- ^ Bem 2015, p. 77.
- ^ Bem 2015, pp. 250–253.
- ^ a b Bem 2015, p. 256.
- Schelvis, Jules (2007). Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Berg, Oxford & New Cork. pp. 147–168. ISBN 978-1-84520-419-8. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- Bem, Marek (2015). Sobibor Extermination Camp 1942-1943 (PDF). Translated by Karpiński, Tomasz; Sarzyńska-Wójtowicz, Natalia. Stichting Sobibor. ISBN 978-83-937927-2-6.