The family home next to Auschwitz is opening its doors to the world
With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility,
A House at Auschwitz Opens Its Doors to a Chilling Past
The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest,” will soon welcome visitors.
Auschwitz commandant’s former house to open to visitors
A house once owned by Rudolf Höss, the notorious commandant of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp, has been purchased by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US-based non-governmental organisation,
The house of the Zone of Interest in Auschwitz will soon be open for visits
The family who have lived there since 1982 sold the house last year and it will now become the home of the ‘Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation’.
An Infamous Auschwitz Home Will No Longer House Families
She describes it as an idyllic place to raise her sons, apart from the fact that Auschwitz sat on the other side of the wall. Now, the home that Grazyna Jurczak occupied for more than four decades—one the public learned housed the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss via the Oscar-winning Zone of Interest—will cease to be a residence.
'Place of incredible evil': House of Auschwitz commander Hoss to open to visitors
The NYT added that as part of the preparations, workers had removed all post-war elements, leaving the house as it would have looked when the Hoss family lived there from 1941 to
Former family home next to Auschwitz set to become ‘global center to fight extremism’
Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at number 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a ...
'Place of incredible evil': House of Auschwitz commander to open to visitors
A house is a house,” said Jacek Purski., who is involved in the project. “But it is in uninteresting, regular houses like ...
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