The ‘house next door’: Rudolf Höss's villa opens to honour Auschwitz victims
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, House 88 with its chilling past has been turned into centre to combat hate
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.
At Christmas time, they put up a tree in the living room and festooned it with ornaments and candles. In the garden, there was a pond, a sandpit, a slide, several picnic benches and a greenhouse with exotic plants. At night, Höss tucked his sons and daughters into bed and said: “Schlaf schön meine Kinder” – sleep well my children.
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