Date of birth:

November 11th, 1901 (Wittgendorf, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Unterscharfführer

Nationality:

German

Teacher and member of the armed units of the SS

10-05-1940 SS gunner, member of the camp team in KL Auschwitz, security.
16-05-1941 deputy head
Identification service of the political department in KL Auschwitz
01-07-1941 SS-Sturmmann
01-02-1943 SS-Rottenführer
14-09-1944 SS-Unterscharfführer

Auschwitz album:
The only known photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp before the liberation on January 27, 1945 to 2006 were the 193 photos from the first Auschwitz album. The German title was: Resettlement of the Jews from Hungary. They were pasted onto 56 cardboard pages, as they were used for photo albums. There were individual gaps. They show the trials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. In late May or early June 1944 they were presumably taken in by Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose job it was to take passport photos and fingerprints of the newly admitted prisoners, but not of the Jews who went straight ahead. sent to the gas chambers.

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• - CRIPPA, L. & ONNIS, M., De fotograaf van Auschwitz, Boekerij, Amsterdam, 2014.
  - Hofmann Ernst