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May 30, 2024 · The new documentary The Commandant’s Shadow brings together the son of the man who masterminded the notorious concentration camp, and one prisoner who made it out alive. Maya Lasker-Wallfisch...
Jun 7, 2024 · The siblings’ denial is strikingly contrasted with the inescapable experience of the film’s other subject, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a 98-year-old German Jew who watched her whole...
- Elizabeth Weitzman
Paul Wallfisch: The subject plays the piano and organ with carefree virtuosity as his head bobs like a dashboard Jesus careening at 90 MPH down an unpaved road.
Jun 13, 2024 · The true story that inspired the Oscar-winning “The Zone of Interest,” “The Commandant’s Shadow” tells how, eight decades after Auschwitz, Hans Jurgen Höss and Anita Lasker Wallfisch – both survivors in their very different ways – come face to face, together with their children, to explore how the Holocaust has impacted all their ...
Jun 4, 2024 · The Real 'Zone of Interest': The Nazi Officer Who Ran Auschwitz - and His Devoted Son. 'The Commandant's Shadow' is an exceptional documentary that lays bare an uncomfortable truth: Life for the family of the death camp commander Höss was even more idyllic than the fictional take Jonathan Glazer presents in 'The Zone of Interest'.
- Adrian Hennigan
- adrian.hennigan@haaretz.co.il
Jun 2, 2024 · His story is told in The Commandant’s Shadow, a new documentary that brings Hoss together with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz who struggled to survive on the other side of the fence. The movie also introduces us to Anita’s daughter and Hans-Jurgen’s son.
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Jun 18, 2024 · Their path leads to a meeting with Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, known as the ‘cellist from Auschwitz,’ and her daughter Maya. It features hitherto unseen archival...
