When he was 14 years old, Kai Höss learnt that his grandfather had been the Commandant at Auschwitz. In a new documentary film about the place where so many men, women and children, overwhelmingly Jewish, were murdered by the Nazis, he travels to the camp with his father, who had lived next to it as a child, and the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor.
18 July 2024, The Tablet
Living in the Commandant’s shadow
What, I wondered, could such a man possibly do to atone for the guilt of his grandfather Rudolf Höss?
Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Höss and Hans-Jurgen Höss walk into Auschwitz on a cold grey dawn
photo: Warner Bros
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