[HIGHLIGHTS] Rainer Höss on his grandmother, character in the film The Zone of Interest: “Hedwig was a dominating, harsh, maniacal woman”

Rainer Höss, the grandson of the commander of Auschwitz, sketches for Le Figaro a portrait of his grandmother Hedwig as he describes her. Among the sources of information which served as a reference for the team of Jonathan Glazer's film The Zone of Interest, there is one of the first order: the color photos of the villa garden.

These astonishing images of a flowery “paradise”, located on the other side of the concentration camp wall and over which the terrifying Hedwig Hensel Høss passionately watched over, are part of the Höss Fund.