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"In those days, Argentina was a kind of paradise to us." Even before World War II, Argentina was closely linked to Nazi ...
A wartime scrapbook my grandfather kept contains harrowing photographs from the Dachau concentration camp. I think I finally ...
Whether Netflix, Amazon Prime or Apple TV is your preferred streaming platform of choice – there are an abundance of war films to choose from. From Quentin Tarantino's award-winning Inglourious ...
A teacher was reading from a history textbook about the Holocaust when the name “Rudolf Höss” came up. Kai went home and asked his mother if there was any relation.
In 7th grade history, Kai Höss learned that his grandfather, Rudolf Höss, was Nazi SS officer and Auschwitz commandant who was responsible for the deaths of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews.
One of the most notorious Nazis in Sachsenhausen was Rudolf Höss, who later became the commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. He was executed as a war criminal in 1947.
Kai Höss — grandson of Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz — visits the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague with his son, Samuel Ethan, in June 2023. (Courtesy of Kai Höss) By Sydney Page ...
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism. It is introducing it to the public on the 80th ...
In the 2024 Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, director Jonathan Glazer depicts the everyday family life of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, his wife Hedwig and their five ...
Here, he recalls exactly what the daughter of Rudolf Hoess told him about life next door to where more than a million innocents were murdered. ... My Jewish family was forced to flee Nazi Germany.