Tadeusz Misiewicz , a Pole who lived in the village of Bełżec and worked at the train station , testified about Hering ( file No. : Ds . 1604/45 - Zamość . Dated 15 October 1945 / Belzec-OKBZ ) : After the termination of Operation Reinhard and the closure of Belzec in June 1943 , Hering remained the commander of the Poniatowa concentration camp reassigned as subcamp of Majdanek from the forced labor camp supporting the German war effort . On 3 – 4 November 1943 , German police killed the remaining Jews at Poniatowa during Aktion Erntefest ( ) . Hering then joined fellow SS men from the Operation Reinhard staff in Trieste , Italy . On 9 October 1945 , Hering died of mysterious complications in the waiting room of St. Catherine 's Hospital in Stetten im Remstal
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Gottlieb Hering