When commentators compare the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, they choose their words badly. Whatever one might think of it, Israel’s invasion cannot be equated with the organised slaughter of more than six million men, women and children, most of them Jewish. Indeed, no event can, not even the Rwandan genocides, nor the Khmer Rouge’s disastrous ‘collectivisation’ drive in the 1970s.
The Zone of Interest is based on the real life story of Rudolf Höss, who along with his wife and five children lived just outside the walls of the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Upcoming film The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the novel by the late Martin Amis, tells the story of how Rufolf Höss, the commandant Auschwitz-Birkenau, lived just outside the death camp.
The villa lived in by leading Nazi Rudolf Höss with his wife and five children was just outside the walls of Auschwitz, where more than one million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.