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.
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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 voices of those murdered in the Holocaust continue to be heard with dignity and clarity. Through this partnership, CEP and ARCHER (Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization) at House 88, together with Israel reaffirm a shared purpose: to preserve memory, honor the victims of the Holocaust, and ensure that the past continues to speak with moral clarity to the present.
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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 in the Holocaust continue to be heard with dignity and clarity. Through this partnership, CEP and ARCHER (Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization) at House 88, together with Poland reaffirm a shared purpose: to preserve memory, honor the victims of the Holocaust, and ensure that the past continues to speak with moral clarity to the present.
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“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 of antisemitism and extremism.
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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.
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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 death camp. It was the home of Rudolph Höss, the former camp’s commandant, who built an idyllic life for his family while organizing mass murder next door.
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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.
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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.
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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 House 88—a project of the Counter Extremism Project.
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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 online. “It’s a watershed moment,” Mr. Wallace said at the time, “on the question of whether we’re going to allow the unchecked proliferation of cyberjihad.” Yet Islamic propaganda and Jew-hatred remain disquietingly unchecked.