On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, House 88 with its chilling past has been turned into centre to combat hate
A scene from the film The Zone of Interest, with the Höss family having a garden party, the children playing in a pool, with Auschwitz just over the wall.A scene from the film The Zone of Interest, with the Höss family having a garden party, the children playing in a pool, with Auschwitz just over the wall.The villa where Rudolf Höss and his family lived stood immediately next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The garden wall of the villa was the wall of the camp.
From the villa’s second-floor window, they could see the old crematorium where Höss experimented with Zyklon B gas. Prisoners from the camp worked in the house and the garden. Hedwig would later tell her husband that the villa was like “paradise”.Brigitte, who told me she enjoyed living at the villa. “We had fun together,” she said. She played with her turtles Jumbo and Dilla in the garden. Her father took them for boat rides on the Sola River behind the villa.
After the war, a Polish family bought the villa at 88 Legionow Street. In the decades since, they turned away visitors who knocked on the door. The house remained a curiosity, visible to those who came to the camp , a symbol of darkness hidden behind a tall concrete wall.Hedwig Höss with her children in the garden of their villa, which shared a wall with the Auschwitz death camp.In 2024, the American non-profit Counter Extremism Project persuaded the Polish family to sell the property.
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