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 ...

The villa of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss has been bought by an American organisation and converted into an educational ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years. This is the first case of capital punishment under President Lai Ching-te, who took office last year. Rights groups and the European Union ...

Now, it isn’t just pictures of the Höss’s blissful domesticity that remain, but also diaries, one written by the family’s housekeeper and the other by Rudolf Höss himself. This was not out of choice: ...

The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done. His wife Hedwig and daughter Brigitte moved to the United States following his execution.