Roll Out the Barrel. Not quite. Walt Groller, Lehigh Valley’s polka master, accepted one of Austria’s highest civilian honors from Ambassador Friedrich Hoess yesterday at an embassy party flus ...

The fact that the guards had happy moments during their time at the camp was vividly revealed by the photo album of deputy commander Karl-Friedrich Höcker that was donated to the US Holocaust ...

A special guest at the Opera Guild’s “Mozart Jubilee Ball” at Pier 66 on Saturday night was His Excellency Friedrich Hoess, the ambassador from Austria — the ...

accompanied by pianist Friedrich Schulz. He also taped two of his own, “Sunbeams” and a sentimental song about missing his wife. It is only through the recordings that we know the songs exist ...

Within days, this building – a potent symbol of how the Holocaust was orchestrated and a major character in the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest” – will open its door to visitors ...

They called it a “paradise” but, these days, the former home of Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höss and his family is a pokey, depressing fixer-upper. Step inside and the entrance hallway ...

Kai Höss is the grandson of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. Kai has now become a Christian pastor, and travels the world preaching against antisemitism. Show more In a cinema in south ...

Höss went on the run after the liberation of Auschwitz, but was then captured, becoming the first person at such a senior level to admit the extent of the slaughter at the camp. He was made to ...