Kurt Bolender, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Holocaust perpetrator
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Place of Birth: Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Kurt Bolender
- Heinz Kurt Bolender (21 May 1912 – 10 October 1966) was a SS commander during the Nazi era.
- In 1942, he operated the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp, perpetrating acts of genocide against Jews and Romani people during 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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