List of Famous people with last name Gerstein

Kurt Gerstein

First Name Kurt

Last Name Gerstein

Born on August 11, 1905

Died on July 25, 1945 (aged 39)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Kurt Gerstein was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS. After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody.

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Karl Gerstein

First Name Karl

Last Name Gerstein

Born on January 10, 1864

Died on June 19, 1924 (aged 60)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

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Ellen Gerstein

First Name Ellen

Last Name Gerstein

Born on April 29, 1950 (age 74)

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