Operation Harvest Festival was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian Sonderdienst on 3–4
Remains of the mass graves at Majdanek
List of Jewish prisoners working at the camp office at Trawniki. All were murdered on 3 November.
Memorial plaque at Majdanek
Hermann Julius Höfle, also Hans Hermann Hoefle, was an Austrian-born SS commander and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era.
Höfle in 1961
Telegram from Hermann Höfle listing the number of deaths in the extermination camps during a 14-day period in 1942 and for the whole year 1942 (1,274,166). (L) stands for Lublin/Majdanek, (B) for Bełżec, (S) for Sobibor and (T) for Treblinka extermination camp.
Photocopy of personal documents of Hermann Höfle, from his personal file, Berlin Document Center