SS-officieren op het terras van hun eetzaal in Sobibor

The Sobibor perpetrator album contains sixty-two pictures of

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As ...

during its operation, taken by the SS

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employed there. It belonged to deputy commander

Johann Niemann Johann Niemann (4 August 1913 – 14 October 1943) was a German SS and Holocaust perpetrator who was deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. He also served as a ''Leichenverbrenner'' (corpse cremator) at Gra ...

, who was killed in the

Sobibor uprising Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ...

in 1943. The album was donated to the

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in 2020 and is the first collection of photographs of the camp in operation to be published. The USHMM states that it "has not been able to identify the copyright status of this material".

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