Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, on trial here for murdering 4,000,000 persons many of whom were Jews, today confirmed testimony by Dr. J.M. Blumenthal, director of the ...

The grandson of a notorious Auschwitz commandant and the grandson of Holocaust survivors came to Eckerd College, sharing ...

Höss was hanged from the gallows between the camp and his house in 1947. The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done.

On 5 May 1945, the former Commandant of Auschwitz, Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Höss of the SS, traveled to a meeting that he believed would determine his own fate. It was held here at the Mürwik ...

Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-winning drama is one of the most disturbing depictions of the Holocaust, but not for the reasons you might think.

The New Golden Age The Zone of Interest is a movie depicting the lifestyle of Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, who resided just beside the concentration camp. There isn ...

This documentary meets Hans-Jürgen Höss, the now elderly son of Rudolf, and brings him face to face with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - a cellist who played in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz ...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

In a cinema in south-west Germany an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar-winning film, The Zone of Interest, about the life of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz. Those present comprise ...

Here at Auschwitz concentration camp in South West Poland the Commandant Rudolf Höss would wrestle with the task of organizing the mass murder of innocent civilians, including—for the first ...