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 ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism ...

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Oświęcim, Poland (CNN) — With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there.

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 ...