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Financial Times: Should the Auschwitz commandant’s house be hosting exhibitions?
Read full article here. In early 2025, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US-based NGO, announced the purchase of the house from a Polish family for an undisclosed sum. The property had already drawn international attention through Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest. For his movie, Glazer recreated the house on a set […]
Counter Extremism Project’s ARCHER at House 88 to Present New Exhibition by Photographer Hannah Altman, Retracing the Physical and Emotional Journey of Holocaust Victim Lore Sternfeld
Counter Extremism Project’s ARCHER at House 88 to Present New Exhibition by Photographer Hannah Altman, Retracing the Physical and Emotional Journey of Holocaust Victim Lore Sternfeld Vintage Astro-Berlin Lenses, Like Those Sternfeld Crafted, Are Used to Depict the Path from Berlin to Auschwitz Oświęcim, Poland (April 30, 2026) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is proud to organize Ground […]
Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 Announce Partnership with Federal Foreign Ministry of Germany for Musical Concert at Kennedy Center: “Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust”
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and ARCHER at House 88 are honored to announce our official partnership with the Federal Foreign Ministry of Germany for Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust, presented at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026.
Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 Announce Partnership with Embassy of Israel in Washington. D.C. for Musical Concert at Kennedy Center: “Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust”
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to remembrance, historical truth, and the responsibility to confront today’s antisemitism and extremism. By supporting a concert that brings back to life music composed in ghettos and death camps—often written on scraps of paper or preserved only in memory— the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. is helping to ensure that the […]
Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 Announce Partnership with Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. for Musical Concert at Kennedy Center: “Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust”
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to remembrance, historical truth, and the responsibility to confront today’s antisemitism and extremism. By supporting a concert that brings back to life music composed in ghettos and death camps—often written on scraps of paper or preserved only in memory—Poland is helping to ensure that the voices of those murdered […]
“From Nuremberg to Now” Campaign
Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, testified at Nuremberg as a witness with no attempt to deny his crimes.His highly consequential words changed the course of the trials and exposed how atrocity can be made ordinary. With the From Nuremberg to Now campaign, ARCHER at House 88 stands to tell the truth and prevent the normalization […]
Counter Extremism Project Congratulates Dan Snow and History Hit on Their Lovie Award Win for The Auschwitz House, filmed at CEP’s ARCHER at House 88
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) congratulates Dan Snow and the team at History Hit on winning the Lovie Award for Best Podcast for The Auschwitz House, a powerful and moving documentary produced with the support of CEP and its ARCHER at House 88 initiative.
Jacek Purski, ARCHER at House 88 Director, for #EradicateHate2025
In a video for the Eradicate Hate Global Summit (September 15-17, 2025), Jacek Purski; Director of Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88 and Senior Advisor of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP); walks us through House Number 88, which sits directly outside the wall of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and […]
Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER Statement on Antisemitic Vandalism in Dukla, Poland
The Counter Extremism Project and the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88, fully condemn and denounce the vandalization of two Jewish sites in Dukla, Poland that took place over the weekend.
ARCHER at House 88 Opens to March of the Living Guests with Symbolic Mezuzah Ceremony Honoring Jewish Resilience
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is proud to welcome visitors participating in this year’s March of the Living to ARCHER at House 88, the former residence of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, for a unique and symbolic act of remembrance and resilience on April 24th, 2025 between 11:00 am and 12:30 pm, prior to the March.
CEP Webinar Introduces the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88
On April 24, 2025, CEP hosted a webinar on the new report “The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence by Extremist and Terrorist Actors”, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office. CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler introduced the new focal project, The Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization (ARCHER) at […]
Wall Street Journal: This is the House that Höss Built
In 2017 the Counter Extremism Project was instrumental in getting the video archive of Anwar al-Awlaki taken off YouTube. The incendiary preaching of the American-born jihadist had incited the Fort Hood gunman and the Boston Marathon bombers, among others. Awlaki was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike, but his poison had lived on posthumously […]