Rudolf Höss, the man who ran the most notorious Nazi death camp, was his grandfather. “I was shocked, and I was ashamed,” ...

The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done. His wife Hedwig and daughter Brigitte moved to the United States following his execution.

Preservation Liberation Day Is Here 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 ...