Rivista Studio: Rudolf Höss's House In Auschwitz Can Be Visited
“Rudolf Höss's house in Auschwitz, or rather, in Oswiecim, has become famous throughout the world thanks to Jonathan Glazer's film The Zone of Interest , winner of two Oscars. The camp commander lived right next to the camp: from the upstairs window the view opened onto the ovens, as Glazer shows, but on the ground floor there was a flowery and well-kept garden, a path leading to a river for the summer, and an ice rink for the winter. The house, in recent years, was inhabited by Grazyna Jurczak, a 62-year-old widow, who raised two children there. After several years, the woman decided to sell the house to a New York-based organization called Counter Extremism Project. Among the reasons for the sale, Jurczak said, was the excessive attention of visitors to Auschwitz to the house following the success of Glazer's film.”
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.