Hiding in N. Virginia, a daughter of Auschwitz
WRITTEN BY Thomas Harding,
The Washington Post
PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia. She is retired now, having worked in a Washington fashion salon for more than 30 years. She recently was diagnosed with cancer and spends much of her days dealing with the medical consequences.
Brigitte also has a secret that not even her grandchildren know. Her father was Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz.
It was Rudolf Höss who designed and built Auschwitz from an old army barracks in Poland to a killing machine capable of murdering 2,000 people an hour. By the end of the war, 1.1 million Jews had been killed in the camp, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners. As such, Brigitte’s father was one of the biggest mass murderers in history.
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2 comments:
I'm not sure I could handle knowing that someone in my family, let alone my own father, built a structure that killed thousands of innocent people. How could you go through with a plan like that thinking that everything would be fine? I personally find things like this interesting to read about though.
Many people probably have negative thoughts of Brigitte, but have you ever thought of how bad she had probably felt her entire life? She was embarrassed to admit who her real father was! Instead of being a jerk to Brigitte, I believe we should show a little bit of sympathy towards her. I couldn't imagine being in her situation.
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