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"Acquired by the US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP), the villa at 88 Legionow Street will soon reopen as the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization."
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January 27, 2025
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project told The Guardian, "These groups see the next four years as a mix of positives and negatives but overall, as an opportunity to enlarge their movement. Extreme-right groups are focusing on mass deportations and seeking to win over potential recruits by concentrating on this issue.""
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January 27, 2025
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January 27, 2025
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"Before Monday's ceremony, Trudeau visited House 88, the former home of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolph Höss.
The windows of the house — including one in the room where Höss's children slept — look onto the grounds of the death camp.
The house was purchased recently by the Counter Extremism Project and turned into the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization."
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January 27, 2025
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"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, an international organization that aims to fight extremism and antisemitism."
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January 27, 2025
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"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 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."
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January 27, 2025
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"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."
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January 27, 2025
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“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, Jurczak agreed to sell her stake in the home to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based group that wants to open the house to visitors. She moved out in August, and in October the New York group completed its acquisition of the home and an adjacent house built after the war… Cywinski, the Auschwitz-Birkanau museum director, said he was eager to work with the Counter Extremism Project, in its efforts to combat extremism. Extremism, he said, “is unfortunately not a mental illness; it is a method” that exploits widespread feelings of frustration.”
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January 27, 2025
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“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. The house where German SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Höss lived with his family will open to the public for the first time today, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Through the efforts of the American non-profit Counter Extremism Project, in coordination with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the Polish foreign ministry and UNESCO, the villa will become the home of the ‘Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation’.”
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January 27, 2025
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“... 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 for stronger laws, policies and regulations around the world. Counter Extremism Project CEO Mark Wallace said the opening of the home to the public is his dream, and those of our colleagues, is that every visitor, every fellow, and every academic that visits the Auschwitz site will be inspired to take action to fight extremism wherever they come from.”
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January 27, 2025
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