Hans Jürgen Höss, 87, delivers perhaps one of the most bewildering lines ever captured on film when he says: ‘I had a really lovely and idyllic childhood in Auschwitz’
Many of the photographs were taken at Solahütte, a recreation resort less than 20 miles south of Auschwitz on the Sola River, which prisoners had been forced to build for the captors’ enjoyment.
Gary Sokolov’s father Lali, a Slovakian Jew, was forced to work as the tattooist at the Nazis’ death camp in occupied Poland. Above: Harvey Keitel as Lali Sokolov in The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Martin Greenfield, who survived Auschwitz during World War II and went on to become a tailor for movies like The Joker and President Obama’s infamous tan suit, has died. He was 95 years old.
Holocaust denier David Irving arrived in the American state last October and his health has declined ever since.
As well as drawing on witness testimony, director Jonathan Glazer examined photos of the Höss children playing in the garden of their villa and then recreated those scenes in his film.
Musk touched town in Poland early Monday on a private jet after which he took a Tesla from the airport
Upcoming film The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the novel by the late Martin Amis, tells the story of how Rufolf Höss, the commandant Auschwitz-Birkenau, lived just outside the death camp.
The harrowing images, taken on June 14, 1940, show 728 Poles being herded down streets from a prison in the city of Tarnow.