Josef Erber
For the natural history dealer in Vienna, see Josef Erber (naturalist).
Josef Erber (birth name: Josef Houstek) (16 October 1897 in Ottendorf — 1987) was an SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was in charge of the crematoria.[1]
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.[2]
After serving at Auschwitz, in 1944, Josef Houstek changed his name to Josef Erber.
References
- Müller, Filip (1999) [1979]. 'Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers. trans. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. and Susanne Flatauer. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee & in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 180. ISBN 1-56663-271-4.
- ↑ "Zyklon Introduction Columns - Erber's Testimony". Holocaust History Project. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
- ↑ Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
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