A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism. It is introducing it to the public on the 80th

As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh

The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to fighting extremism. Once a chilling symbol of Nazi atrocities, the house will open to the public on Auschwitz’s 80th liberation anniversary (January 27),

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have created "The Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation." The home is now open to the public for the first time.

The family home next to Auschwitz – immortalized on screen in last year’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Zone of Interest’ - is opening its doors to the public for the first time. This coincides with an alarming international survey examining Holocaust knowledge and awareness.

And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility, given its immediate neighbor: the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss – the longest serving SS commandant of Auschwitz – dreamt ...

Once a 'paradise' occupied by commandant Rudolf Höss, the center will now host research, education, professional training, policy advocacy, and art

OSWIECIM, Poland — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into ... the house just next to the concentration camp. As commandant from 1940 ...

The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed ... five children in the house just next to the concentration camp. As commandant from 1940 to 1944, Höss ...

They called it a “paradise” but, these days, the former home of Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höss and his family is a pokey, depressing fixer-upper. Step inside and the entrance hallway ...

This is Brigitte Hoess talking. Her voice ... first seen the Hoess villa 16 years ago when I visited the Auschwitz camp. I was with Rudolf Hoess’s grandson Rainer and daughter-in-law Irene ...

From the windows of the house in which the infamous commandant of Auschwitz lived, one can still see the barracks of the place where the Nazis murdered more than a million people. 80 years after the liberation of the concentration camp by the Soviet Army,