Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
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 ...
Anti-extremism center opens in former house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...
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Survivors and World Leaders Gather to Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
The Nazis murdered an estimated 1.1 million people at the death camp in southern Poland before its liberation on January 27, ...
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Museum works to preserve shoes belonging to Auschwitz’s youngest victims
On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...
Largest collection of Auschwitz artifacts outside Europe coming to Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The largest collection of Auschwitz artifacts outside of Europe is coming to Cincinnati later this year. Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away opens Oct. 18 at Union Terminal. It ...
Holocaust Memorial Day - latest: Kate joins William at event as King issues warning on Auschwitz anniversary
Kate joins William at event as King issues warning on Auschwitz anniversary - Charles becomes first British head of state to ...
Auschwitz Commandant's House Opens For 80th Anniversary
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.
Largest collections of artifacts from Auschwitz outside Europe coming to Union Terminal
"Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." will open at Union Terminal on Oct. 18 2025, and is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the history of the German Nazi concentration and ...
Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust
In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...
House next to Auschwitz opens to public amid alarming international survey results on Holocaust
The family home next to Auschwitz – immortalized on screen in last year’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Zone of Interest’ - is ...
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Otto Küsel: The thief who saved lives in Auschwitz
He was no noble officer like Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the ringleader of the most famous attempt to kill Adolf Hitler. He was no industry titan like Oskar Schindler, who sheltered Jews as ...
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The family home next to Auschwitz is opening its doors to the world
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 ...