Feb 21, 2024 · His whereabouts were unknown to his own children until he called his son Kai Höß, a pastor in Stuttgart, after 36 years. For years, he has been a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a denomination executed by the Nazis during the Third Reich.

Höss was the eldest of three children and the only son. He was baptized Rudolf Franz Ferdinand on 11 December 1901. Höss was a lonely child with no companions of his own age until he entered elementary school; all of his associations were with adults.

May 7, 2024 · The Commandant’s Shadow follows 87-year-old Hans Jürgen Höss, whose late father, Rudolf Höss, was the camp commandant of Auschwitz during World War II and helped oversee the murder of over 1...

Son of SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Rudolf Höss. In the mid-1960s, Klaus Höss, the eldest of Rudolf and Hedwig Höss' five children, emigrated with his German wife Liselotte (Lilo) to Australia. Klaus and Lilo Hoss settled in Sydney where they brought up their only daughter, Christine. They later...

Nov 5, 2024 · Seeking to face the intergenerational trauma caused by Rudolf Höss—the notorious commander of Auschwitz and principal architect of the Holocaust—they met with a survivor of the concentration...

May 28, 2024 · One is about Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a German-Jewish cellist and Auschwitz survivor who played in the camp band. The other is about Hans-Jurgen Höss, Rudolf Höss’ son, who was 3 when Auschwitz...

May 30, 2024 · Half of the film is Hans’ son Kai (Rudolf’s grandson) getting his father to talk (in German) about how he has spent his life wrestling with the burden of his father’s atrocities: Rudolf...

Jun 18, 2024 · Now, a documentary about the movie’s subject, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, has been released. The Commandant’s Shadow sets its focus on Höss’ son, Jergen, during his time living adjacent to the infamous concentration camp during the Second World War.

Jun 4, 2024 · The gripping documentary “The Commandant’s Shadow” delves into the minds (among others) of Hans-Juergen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, who was the Commandant of Auschwitz, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, an Auschwitz survivor.

May 30, 2024 · But Höss’s son Hans-Jurgen Höss, now 87, never knew the commandant as a monster. Even though his family lived a few hundred yards from the concentration camp, separated from it by just a...