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.

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.

Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss – the longest serving SS commandant of Auschwitz – dreamt up the most efficient way to kill the millions of Jews, Roma, homosexuals and political prisoners ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on the 80th ...

The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest,” will soon welcome visitors.

This was not just any house. It is the villa where the commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess lived with his wife and five children – including Brigitte, who lived there until she was 11 years old.

Blame it also on the ghostly place where we are talking: the house, right next to the original Auschwitz camp, where its commandant, Rudolf Höss, lived with his family from May 1940 through ...

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.

Hans Jürgen Höss’ name may not ring a bell, but for millions of families, his father’s does. Hans is the son of Rudolf Höss, the former camp commandant of Auschwitz who was responsible for ...

COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ (285 pp.) —Rudolf Hoess, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon—World ($4.50). Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, Nazi SS captain, may have been the most monstrous executioner ...

Höss was hanged from the gallows between the camp and his house in 1947. The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done.

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on the 80th ...