50 years ago on this
date, October 10, 1966, one of the Gas Operators of Sobibor Extermination Camp,
committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell.
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Kurt
Bolender
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Heinz Kurt Bolender (May 21, 1912 – October 10, 1966) was
an SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) during the Second
World War. In 1942 Bolender operated the gas chambers at Sobibór
extermination camp, thereby directly perpetrating acts of genocide
against Jews and Gypsies
during the Nazi operation known as Operation Reinhard.
After
the war, Bolender was recognized in 1961 while working under a false identity
as a doorman at a nightclub in Germany, and subsequently accused in 1965 of
personally murdering at least 360 Jewish inmates and assisting in the murder of
86,000 more at Sobibór. He committed suicide in prison two months prior to the
end of the trial.
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