Kurt Schlesinger

Kurt Schlesinger (17 December 1902 – 3 August 1963) was a German Jewish administrative director of Westerbork transit camp during World War II.

Schlesinger's main task was to administer the prisoner index and the production of the deportation lists for the transports of the Jews, Sinti, and Roma to Auschwitz, Sobibor, and the Theresienstadt.

Schlesinger dressed like an "overly Prussian": He wore breeches, boots, a leather coat and an officer's cap.

Etty Hillesum, a contemporary witness and Auschwitz victim, described Schlesinger as "the right hand" of the camp commandant SS-Obersturmführer Albert Konrad Gemmeker [de].

As a prison officer of the corrupt German Jewish security service at the Westerbork transit camp, Schlesinger is considered to have been actively involved in the deportation and murder of more than 100,000 Jews.