The documentary shows how Auschwitz’s trauma follows evil agents and victims from one generation to the next

One thought It will probably come to mind for anyone who has been able to visit their childhood home for decades.

“I remembered this would be bigger.”

It is with these words that also begins about 85 years of age Hans-Jürgen Hössin A visit to a house where he lived under the age of ten. The floor stones are marked with a year of construction 1937, which also happens to be the year of birth of Höss.

The house is located in the city of Oświęcim in southern Poland, German called Auschwitz. Höss’s father was Rudolf Hösswho, as a commandant to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, developed industrial destructive power to kill people. He was responsible for the deaths of over one million prisoners.

This is Hans-Jürgen Hössi’s first adult visit to his wartime home, and it is seen Daniela Völkerin documentary The Commandant’s Shadow at the beginning of.

The documentary published in 2024 will The Zone of Interest Drama movie events, because in this house and its garden, the Rudolf Höss family spent a carefree everyday life. At the same time, Dad went to work on the other side of the fence surrounding the yard, as seen in the movie.

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Auschwitz’s evil will overshadow humanity even after 80 years.

As the name implies The Commandant’s Shadow Describe how the evil in Auschwitz will overshadow humanity for another 80 years even after the camp is released. They overshadow the factors and victims, and trauma moves forward in the chain of generations.

Hans-Jürgen Höss claims to have been ignorant of the horrors of the camp and his father’s role in them, even though the nearest crematorium barrel was clearly visible from the window of his room. His son Kai Believes that the father has suppressed his memories. Kai Höss himself works as a pastor and wonders in one of his sermons what kind of genus has fallen.

Hans-Jürgen, on the other hand, has not even read his own father’s memoirs, which he wrote after the war while waiting for the judgment. His sister Ginger eli Pin There is even more reluctant to dig in the past. Thus, the first generation of Nazi offspring has chosen silence, while the next generation is looking for their own approach to openness.

About the victims The documentary follows the almost 100 -year -old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, that survived Auschwitz thanks to his cello skill. He was able to play the camp in the orchestra, thus avoiding both heavy physical work and a gas chamber.

However, her youth concentration camp experiences hardened her to the extent that she also chose silence. Daughter Maya She mourns her unhappy childhood as she would have longed for a mother’s relationship with the mother.

However, the documentary protagonists convey an open and genuine impression. A straightforward and sharp Anita Lasker-Wallfisch follows her daughter’s attempts to deal with the past, and Hans-Jürgen Hösskin begins to open up to her family’s share in the horrors of history. In the end, the parties also move towards each other.

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