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Alfred Trzebinski
Alfred Trzebinski served as SS physician at Neuengamme; participant in the Bullenhuser Damm murders. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Neuengamme · Hamburg · Germany through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Alfred Trzebinski was born on 29 August 1902 at Jutrosin. As an SS physician he served at Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence)
- On 20 April 1945 he participated in preparing and carrying out the murder at Bullenhuser Damm of twenty Jewish children, four adult caretakers and twenty-four Soviet prisoners. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence; Source: The Wiener Holocaust Library, Collection 2162, reference 2162/16, “Scope and content”)
- A British military court sentenced him to death on 3 May 1946; he was executed at Hameln on 8 October 1946. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Trzebinski’s responsibility is individualised through his function as an SS physician and specific acts at Bullenhuser Damm. The profile does not attribute to him every crime committed at the camps where he served. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence; Source: The Wiener Holocaust Library, Collection 2162, reference 2162/16, “Scope and content”)
Key events and mechanisms
- 20 April 1945 – participated in the Bullenhuser Damm murders (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence)
- 3 May 1946 – death sentence in the Neuengamme staff trial (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence; Source: The Wiener Holocaust Library, Collection 2162, reference 2162/16, “Scope and content”)
- 8 October 1946 – execution at Hameln (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The first British Neuengamme staff trial at the Curiohaus sentenced Trzebinski to death. He was hanged at Hameln prison on 8 October 1946. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence)
Limits of the evidence
The sources individualise his participation at Bullenhuser Damm, but other defendants also performed parts of the operation. The stated numbers concern this single killing operation, not a personal total for all his acts. (Source: Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte / Offenes Archiv, pp. 1–3 (identity, camp posts, Bullenhuser Damm murders, verdict and execution); pp. 10–11, TNA WO 309/872 and witness evidence; Source: The Wiener Holocaust Library, Collection 2162, reference 2162/16, “Scope and content”)
Sources
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