Josias Kumpf , an ethnic-German or " Volksdeutsche " 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 in the Polish General Government . 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 , 43,000 Jewish men , women and children were murdered at three Nazi camps in eastern Poland . 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 claimed to have never discharged his weapon
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Josias Kumpf