Josef Wolf (SS member)
Josef Wolf (born April 18, 1900 in Krummau in Bohemia ; † October 14, 1943 in the Sobibór extermination camp ) was an SS squad leader who was killed during the Sobibór uprising . His brother Franz Wolf , with whom he worked in a joint SS command in Sobibór, was sentenced to eight years in prison in the Sobibor trials .
Life
Josef Wolf, a photographer in Krummau by profession, was a soldier in the Wehrmacht from the beginning of the Second World War until autumn 1941 . Then he was seconded to " Aktion T4 ".
Josef Wolf took up his service in the Sobibór extermination camp in the sorting barracks in March 1943 as part of “ Aktion Reinhardt ” . Josef Wolf and his brother, SS-Unterscharführer Franz Wolf (who survived because he was on an outside command at the time of the uprising) had the task of dressing the Jews they were wearing before going to the gas chamber (called the hose) or to the Had to put down the barrack for haircutting, to collect it and bring it through an entrance to the nearby baggage and sorting barracks. There the clothing was sorted by the work details of Rudolf Beckmann and Paul Johannes Groth and searched for money and valuables. The shoes were picked up by Johann Klier 's command .
During the Sobibor uprising , he was killed by Jewish camp inmates. After his death, his wife received news that he had "died in a gang attack". He was buried with the other eleven killed SS men in the Chełmer military cemetery with military honors.
literature
- Barbara Distel : Sobibor . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 376 ff.
- Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast-Verlag . Hamburg / Münster 2003. ISBN 3-89771-814-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of Josef Wolf on www.deathcamps.org
- ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp . P. 82 (see literature)
- ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp . P. 313
- ↑ Online presence of Museum Wlodawa (Poland) ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ): pictures of the burial of the military ceremony; Text in Polish
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS man in the Sobibor extermination camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krummau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sobibor extermination camp |