Herman Langbein

1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10653734
• English, Hebrew
• 1980-1983
• Typewritten 50 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Documentation regarding the confrontation with Hermann Langbein, 1980-1980 - Part II In 1972 Hermann Langbein, a political inmate of Austrian origin, published a book entitled "People in Auschwitz". In his book, Langbein claimed that Sonderkommando inmates working in the Birkenau gas chambers allegedly carried out necrophilic acts on women murdered in the Birkenau gas chambers. Langbein included this claim in his book on the basis of the testimony of Yehuda Bacon, who was an adolescent boy of 14 in Birkenau. Over the years Erich Kulka and some of the Sonderkommando men confronted Langbein a...