Sitting down to reflect upon Grace Elizabeth Hale’s memoir “In the Pines” — named the best Mississippi History Book by the Mississippi Historical Society last year — I encountered “A House at Auschwit ...
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 that ...
This was not just any house. It is the villa where the commandant of Auschwitz RudolfHoess lived with his wife and five children – including Brigitte, who lived there until she was 11 years old.