Josef Erber
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Josef Erber was an SS
-Oberscharführer
at Auschwitz concentration camp
. He was in charge of the crematoria.
Erber is mentioned several times in the account of Sonderkommando
member Filip Müller
, and is noted to have been among the most notoriously cruel of the SS personnel.
After serving at Auschwitz, in 1944, Josef Houstek changed his name to Josef Erber.
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
-Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...
at Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
. He was in charge of the crematoria.
Erber is mentioned several times in the account of Sonderkommando
Sonderkommando
Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during The Holocaust...
member Filip Müller
Filip Müller
Filip Müller was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp....
, and is noted to have been among the most notoriously cruel of the SS personnel.
After serving at Auschwitz, in 1944, Josef Houstek changed his name to Josef Erber.