"Also on Monday, the former home of Auschwitz’s Nazi leader, Rudolf Höss, opened to the public. The house, which was featured in the film The Zone of Interest, is adjacent to the former death camp. It was purchased by the Counter Extremism Project...

"The house, once a luxurious “paradise” where the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz lived from 1940 to 1944, is being converted into a research center fighting against antisemitism and extremism, and operated by the non-profit organization...

"On Sunday, and by chance, I was among the first journalists allowed inside the house since it was acquired by the international Counter Extremism Project, headed by Mark Wallace, the former US ambassador to the United Nations."

“Oswiecim, Poland: The mother lived for 42 years in a three-storey house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz, sometimes losing sleep at the thought of what had happened on the other side of her garden wall… Last summer...

“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...

“... It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and...

"This year's observance also saw the introduction of new initiatives aimed at combating antisemitism, including plans for the former villa of Rudolf Höß, the Auschwitz commandant, to be transformed. This educational center is supported by...

"It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating...

"“These groups see the next four years as a mix of positives and negatives but overall as an opportunity to enlarge their movement” said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at the New York-based Counter Extremism Project. “Extreme-right groups...

"This house with its twisted history has now been bought by the Counter Extremism Project from a Polish family whose ancestors had lived there since before and after the war - when it was seized by the Nazis."