Kurt Bolender

Heinz Kurt Bolender
Born	(1912-05-21)21 May 1912 Duisburg, German Empire
Died	10 October 1966(1966-10-10) (aged 54) Hagen, West Germany
Cause of death	Suicide by hanging
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1930s–1945
Rank	Oberscharführer
Unit	SS-Totenkopfverbände
Commands held	Operated gas chambers at Sobibór Camp III
Awards	Iron Cross 2nd Class, War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords.

Heinz Kurt Bolender^[1] (21 May 1912 – 10 October 1966) was an SS sergeant during the Nazi era. In 1942, he operated the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp, perpetrating acts of genocide against Jews and Romani people during Operation Reinhard. After the war, Bolender was recognized in 1961 while working under a false identity as a doorman at a nightclub in West Germany, and subsequently accused in 1965 of personally murdering at least 360 Jewish inmates and assisting in the murder of 86,000 more at Sobibór. He died by suicide in prison two months prior to the end of the trial.