His descendant Rudolf Hess, the Auschwitz commander, was responsible for the extermination of roughly 400,000 Hungarian Jews at the death camp in June 1944. BUDAPEST (JTA) — Rainer Hoess, the ...

When he was a child Rainer Hoess was shown a family heirloom. He remembers his mother lifting the heavy lid of the fireproof chest with a large swastika on the lid, revealing bundles of family photos.