BERLIN, Jan 29 — Hundreds of newly discovered photographs, including some taken at the Sobibor death camp, represent a “quantum leap” in research into Nazi crimes against humanity, historians at the Berlin museum Topography of Terror said yesterday. Historians said the “exceptional...
A general view at the photographs in a glass case after a news conference for the presentation ‘The Niemann Collection on the Holocaust and National Socialism’ in Berlin January 28, 2020. — Reuters pic
The trove, consisting of 361 black-and-white photos and several written documents, also includes photos believed to show convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who denied ever being at Sobibor. Around 1.8 million Jews died at Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor in Poland as part of “Operation Reinhard”, yet knowledge about the latter camp has been scarce.
The historians were cautious however, saying that they could not be totally certain the photos showed the convicted Nazi guard.
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