(27 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oswiecim, Poland – 26 January 2025
1. Doors and inscription reading (English) "Counter extremism project" on wall
2. Various of prisoner trousers found in Auschwitz commandant house
3. Various of papers found between walls during renovation of Auschwitz commandant house
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Purski, Director of the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Racialization:
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"Forget the name of Höss (Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss). This is not important here. I know that sometimes people who are coming here they would love to hear the story about where was he sleeping or whatever. This is totally not important. This house is having no historical value, no symbolic value, etc. What will happen here in the future is the most important. This house will turn into the global center on radicalization and extremism."
5. Various of entrance to Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, with archway reading (German) "Work sets you free"
6. Gate and guard tower
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Wallace, CEO of the Counter Extremist Project:
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"My dream, and those of our colleagues, is that every visitor, every fellow, every academic that comes here takes action to fight extremism and anti-Semitism wherever they come from."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brzezinka, Poland – 26 January 2025
8. Various of Auschwitz II Birkenau Nazi concentration camp
STORYLINE:
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday.
The house, which belonged to a Polish family before Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, lies next to the site of the former death camp, now the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
“My dream, and those of our colleagues, is that every visitor, every fellow, every academic that comes here takes action to fight extremism and anti-Semitism wherever they come from," said Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project.
His group bought the house from a private family, and has founded the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization in the house. It opened its doors to doors to reporters on the eve of the anniversary commemorations, showing them the rooms in the three-story house that still need to be renovated.
The project is being launched in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and under the patronage of UNESCO, and in collaboration with architect Daniel Libeskind.
The house was featured in the Oscar-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” which depicts the life of Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to the concentration camp.
As commandant from 1940 to 1944, Höss orchestrated the industrial-scale slaughter at the camp, where gas was used to murder Jews and others in gas chambers.
He was tried by a Polish court and was executed by hanging at the site of the concentration camp in 1947.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is holding observances on Monday for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet forces.
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