A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism.

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),

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 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

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to become a centre for the global fight against anti-Semitism and extremism. The plan is for the house to be turned into a research and education centre over the coming months.

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where

About 50 survivors are joining King Charles and world leaders for commemorations including a service and speeches.

Officials say the commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation could be the last of its kind.

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.

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 ...