Otto Moll

Who is Otto Moll?

Otto Moll was an SS-Hauptscharführer and part of the staff at Auschwitz. Born in Hohenschonberg, Germany on March 4, 1915 and was executed on May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech.

Moll joined the SS on May 1, 1935. He held various posts during his tenure at Auschwitz. From May 1941 until January 1945 he was Kommandoführer of the gardeners work detail, director of the employment service in the men's camp, head of the crematoria in Birkenau, Lagerführer of the Fürstengrube subcamp in Wesola near Myslowice and of the Gleiwitz 1 sub-camp in Gliwice.

In May 1941, Otto Moll was transferred from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Birkenau where he was put in charge of digging the mass graves. From 1943 to the evacuation of the camp, Moll was chief of the crematoria. Alter Feinsilber, a member of the Sonderkommando at Birkenau who worked under Otto Moll's supervision, mentioned Moll in his testimony for the prosecution in a Kraków court:

It happened that some prisoners offered resistance when about to be shot at the pit or that children would cry and then SS Quartermaster Sergeant Moll would throw them alive into the flames of the pit.

According to the former Sonderkommando prisoner Henryk Tauber: