'The Commandant's Shadow' tells the true Holocaust story behind 'The Zone of Interest'

(JTA) - In "The Zone of Interest," the Oscar-winning drama about life adjacent to Auschwitz, the children of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi concentration camp's commandant, are only dimly aware of the horrors unfolding on the other side of the fence.

Now, a new documentary exploring what those real-life children knew, and when, is hitting theaters - and unlike "The Zone of Interest," it includes voices of Jews imprisoned at Auschwitz.

"The Commandant's Shadow," directed by Daniela Volker and distributed by Warner Brothers, tells two parallel stories. One is about Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a German-Jewish...