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Poland: Former Auschwitz commandant's house converted into anti-hate centre

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Oświęcim, Poland - January 25, 2025 From the windows of the house in which the infamous commandant of Auschwitz lived, one can still see the barracks of the place where the Nazis murdered more than a million people. 80 years after the liberation of the concentration camp by the Soviet Army, the former residence of Rudolf Höss will be converted into a memorial center. Camera: MIGUEL ÁNGEL GAYO. FOOTAGE OF THE FORMER RESIDENCE OF RUDOLF HÖSS, COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ. 00:00 - 00:08 The facade of the house where Rudolf Hoss lived in Oswiecim (Poland), adjacent to the Auschwitz-Birkkenau extermination camp. The building is to be transformed into the Auschwitz Centre for Research on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation (ARCHER). 00:08 - 00:14 The outer wall of the Auschwitz camp, with barbed wire fences and a watchtower, next to a snowy road. Hoss's former house can be seen in the background. 00:14 - 00:20 The garden of Rudolf Hoss's former house in Oswiecim, Poland, adjacent to the Auschwitz-Birkkenau extermination camp, in winter and covered with snow. The outer fence of the garden is the wall that encloses the Auschwitz camp. 00:20 - 00: 26 Bathroom of the former home of Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz, with a white bathtub. 00:26 - 00:31 The entrance door to the former house of Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz, is seen from the inside. The reception wall is deteriorated, in the process of restoration, with cracked paint. 00:31 - 00:37 Interior of the former home of Auschwitz commandant Hoss, with wires and construction tools. The wall reads in English ‘Project Against Extremism’, the name of the foundation that will convert the building into an Anti-Hate Centre. 00:37 - 00:44 Stairs leading down to the basement of the former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss 00:44 - 00:58 View of the barracks of the Auschwitz-Birkkenau extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, from the first-floor window of the house where camp commandant and war criminal Rudolf Hoss lived. 00:58 - 01:12 Clothes that belonged to a prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkkenau extermination camp in Oswiecim (Poland) and handwritten newspapers and papers. These objects were found while cleaning the house where Rudolf Hoss lived, adjacent to the camp. SOUNDBITES IN ENGLISH OF JACEK PURSKI, DIRECTOR OF THE AUSCHWITZ CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON HATRED, EXTREMISM, AND RADICALISATION (ARCHER), WHICH WILL BE LOCATED IN THE HOUSE WHERE RUDOLF HOSS LIVED IN OSWIECIM, POLAND, ADJACENT TO THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKKENAU EXTERMINATION CAMP. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]

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