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Josias Kumpf (April 7, 1925 – October 15, 2009)
was a former Nazi
concentration camp guard.
Biography
WWII-Era
Josias Kumpf, born in the former Yugoslavia, served under the SS guard forces at Sachsenhausen in
1942 at the age of 17 and served there for about a year before
transferring to Trawniki concentration
camp. Kumpf was accused of having taken part in the Holocaust;
including a murderous November 1943 Nazi operation that went by the
code name “Aktion Erntefest” (Harvest festival)
in which, over two days, 42,000 Jewish men, women and children were
murdered at three Nazi camps in eastern Poland.[1]
He was active in the murder of 8,000 Jews on November 3, 1943 in Trawniki concentration
camp, where it was his task to stand guard over a pit where
prisoners were being gunned down and "finish off" the wounded,
although he never had to fire his gun once.[2]
Post-war
After World War
II, he emigrated to the United States in 1956 and settled in Illinois, becoming a
naturalized United States
citizen in 1964. He moved to Wisconsin after his wife died in
1999. In 2003, the United States sued to strip him of his U.S.
nationality.[3]
He was deported to Austria
in March 2009.[1]
However, Austria was unable to prosecute him because the statute of
limitations had expired.[4] On
September 17, 2009, Spain charged Kumpf and asked for his
extradition.[5] Before
the extradition request could be processed, however, Kumpf died
that October 15 in Wilhelminenspital in Vienna.[6]
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