When an Auschwitz Survivor Met a Nazi’s Son
Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, with his children, shown here in the new documentary, The Commandant's Shadow. (Snowstorm, Creators Inc., and New Mandate Films)
A new documentary, The Commandant’s Shadow, boldly draws parallels between people with very different memories of the Holocaust.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was 18 years old when she was sent by prison train to Auschwitz in 1943. She credits her survival to the fact that she played cello in the death camp’s orchestra. She was 20 when she testified during the Belsen Trials against the infamous Nazi doctor Fritz Klein, among others. And she was in her nineties when, a few years ago, she…
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