Oświęcim, Poland (CNN) — With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to ...

Visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site in Poland can spot homes not far from the former camp's perimeters. When I visited Auschwitz in 2022, I was a bit stupefied — who, I thought, could ...

Jonathan Glazer’s new film uses the Auschwitz commandant and his family as a vehicle for examining humans’ capacity for evil The Zone of Interest envisions the everyday lives of Auschwitz commandant ...

(JTA) “The Zone of Interest” is not like other Holocaust movies. Directed by British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, the film initially appears to follow an unexceptional German family in the 1940s ...

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It was only when Höss was in the 7th grade that he discovered who his grandfather was, which changed the way he saw himself. "My grandfather is the greatest mass murderer in human history," Kai Höss, ...

Now, it isn’t just pictures of the Höss’s blissful domesticity that remain, but also diaries, one written by the family’s housekeeper and the other by Rudolf Höss himself. This was not out of choice: ...