Bruno Kittel (born 1922 in Austria[1] – disappeared 1945) was an Austrian Nazi functionary in the German SS and Holocaust perpetrator who oversaw the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in September 1943.
[4] In Bezdonys, he offered a cigarette to a Jewish barber who had just given him a shave and asked him if he needed a light.
Wittenberg turned himself in and was found dead (possibly due to a suicide by cyanide) on July 16.
[2] After the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, Kittel visited the remaining labor camps and terrorized their inmates.
On 15 October, he inspected Kailis forced labor camp and deported 30 Jews for execution in Ponary.
[11] In December, Kittel demanded the location of Salk Dessler, deputy of Jacob Gens who escaped the ghetto.
On 27 March 1944, Kittel participated in the Kinderaktion in the ghetto, a roundup of about 1,700 children and the elderly who were subsequently murdered.