New insights into the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and on the killing of sick people as "euthanasia"-

Presentation of the Niemann collection at the 'Topography of Terror' documentation center [ Picture: USHMM] As part of a press conference and an event held at the "Topography of Terror" documentation center, historians from the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart and the Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz e.V. educational organization presented the Niemann collection regarding the Holocaust and National Socialism entitled "Photos from Sobibor" to the public in Berlin on 28 January 2020. More than 350 photos and written sources have recently been discovered which once belonged to Johann Niemann, the deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp. The pictures, which were from Niemann's private collection, give us a new and very visual insight into the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and on the killing of sick people as "euthanasia". The Niemann collection makes a valuable contribution to understanding the murder of around 1.8 million Jewish people, particularly in the Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka death camps, which was known as "Operation Reinhard". Putting the sources into a historical context, the Director of the Ludwigsburg Research Center, Dr. Martin Cüppers, said: "The photo collection which was recently discovered represents a giant leap forward in the way the story of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland can be told in visual form.