The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed ... his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to the concentration camp.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into ... his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to ...

Tall trees and a high concrete wall obscured the view and the screams of the camp so that Rudolf’s wife Hedwig and their five children – Klaus, Heidetraud, Brigitte, Hans-Jürgen and Annegret ...

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But the house in Oswiecim, southern Poland, once the home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, was “a great place to raise children,” said Grazyna Jurczak, 62, a widow who ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research ... his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to the concentration ...

The house was featured in the Oscar-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” which depicts the life of Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to the concentration camp.