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Oswiecim / Auschwitz

- 'The end of the world'

 

 

 

 

Rudolf Höss   1900-1947

 

Auschwitz commandant

 

 

 

 

Rudolf Höss after his arrest.

He had been beaten up.

 

Photograph: Yad Vashem

 

‘Mum knew what was going on’:

Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz,

in the Zone of Interest family

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Sun 24 Mar 2024    06.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Josef Mengele, left,

with Rudolf Hoss, Commandant of Auschwitz,

Josef Kramer, Commandant of Belsen

and an unidentified German officer.

 

Photograph: Universal History Archive/UN/Rex

 

Tales from Auschwitz: survivor stories

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Monday 26 January 2015    15.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/
tales-from-auschwitz-survivor-stories

 

Related

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SS officers socialise near Auschwitz, Poland.

 

From left: Dr Josef Mengele,

Rudolf Höss,

Birkenau commander Josef Kramer,

and unidentified.

 

Photograph: AP

 

 Auschwitz commandant's barber Jozef Paczynski dies aged 95

Former prisoner at notorious Nazi death camp,

who was forced to cut the hair of camp commandant Rudolf Höss,

died in Krakow on Sunday

Associated Press in Warsaw

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Thursday 30 April 2015    17.34 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/
auschwitz-barber-jozef-paczynski-dies-rudolf-hoss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Höss family in the Auschwitz villa, 1943.

 

Anticlockwise from left:

Brigitte,

Hedwig holding Annegret,

Hans Jürgen,

Heidetraud,

Rudolf and Klaus.

 

Photograph: Institut für Zeitgeschichte München

 

‘Mum knew what was going on’:

Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz,

in the Zone of Interest family

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Sun 24 Mar 2024    06.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hedwig Höss with her children in the garden of their villa,

which shared a wall with the Auschwitz death camp.

 

The ‘house next door’: Rudolf Höss’s villa opens to honour Auschwitz victims

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day,

House 88 with its chilling past has been turned into centre to combat hate

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Sat 25 Jan 2025    17.00 CET

Last modified on Sat 25 Jan 2025    21.47 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/
the-house-next-door-rudolf-hoss-villa-opens-to-honour-auschwitz-victims

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archive picture of the Höss children playing in their pool.

 

Photograph: Rainer Höss

Institut für Zeitgeschichte München

 

‘Mum knew what was going on’:

Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz,

in the Zone of Interest family

G

Sun 24 Mar 2024    06.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brigitte and Heidetraud with soldiers in Auschwitz.

 

Photograph: Rainer Höss

 

‘Mum knew what was going on’:

Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz,

in the Zone of Interest family

G

Sun 24 Mar 2024    06.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rudolf Höss    1900-1947

 

Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp

who presided over the murder of 2.5 million inmates

and the death of 500,000 more

from starvation and disease

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/whitney-harris-obituary

 

 

 

Höss was tried

by Polish authorities after the war

and was sentenced to death by hanging in 1947.

 

The punishment was carried out at Auschwitz

next to a crematorium.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/auschwitz-
barber-jozef-paczynski-dies-rudolf-hoss

 

 

http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/
occasional/2003-05/paper.pdf

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/
the-house-next-door-rudolf-hoss-villa-opens-to-honour-auschwitz-victims

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/
the-zone-of-interest-guilt-germany-germans-nazis-jonathan-glazer

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/
brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/
1233089951/the-zone-of-interest-focuses-not-on-the-sights-
but-on-the-sounds-of-the-holocaus

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/04/
the-zone-of-interest-jonathan-glazer-brutal-auschwitz-drama-
sandra-huller-christian-friedel-martin-amis

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/22/
1197961178/in-the-zone-of-interest-evil-lies-just-over-the-garden-wall

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/
1224585616/zone-of-interest-follows-
the-family-life-of-the-nazi-commander-at-auschwitz

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/
1220438850/the-zone-of-interest-review-auschwitz-holocaust

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/
books/holocaust-nazi-archive.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/
adolf-burger-dies.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/world/europe/
jozef-paczynski-95-dies-spent-5-years-as-auschwitz-inmate.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/auschwitz-
barber-jozef-paczynski-dies-rudolf-hoss

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/11/i-escaped-from-auschwitz

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/
whitney-harris-obituary

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/02/
magazine/lives-the-interpreter.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auschwitz through the lens of the SS:

Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp

 

 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/
article/collections-highlight-auschwitz-through-the-lens-of-the-ss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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