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.
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Counter Extremism Project CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace Thanks the Government of Canada and Prime Minister Trudeau for Visiting CEP’s ARCHER at House 88 and Ongoing Efforts in Fighting Antisemitism
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued the following statement thanking the Government of Canada and its delegation, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for visiting CEP’s Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at the former house of the Commandant, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz last Monday, January 27.
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Counter Extremism Project CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace Thanks the Government of Germany and its Official Delegation for Visiting CEP’s ARCHER at House 88 and Ongoing Efforts in Fighting Antisemitism
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued the following statement thanking the federal government of Germany and its delegation, led by Bundestag Vice-president Petra Pau, for recently visiting CEP’s Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at the former house of the Commandant, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, January 27.
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Counter Extremism Project CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace Applauds President Trump for His Commitment to Fighting Antisemitism and Thanks Him and His Delegation Members at the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz for Their Visit to CEP’s ARCHER
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement thanking President Trump and all members of his important delegation for their recent visit to CEP’s Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at the former house of the Commandant, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, January 27, and to the President for issuing an Executive Order confronting antisemitism:
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BBC News: 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Ambassador Mark D. Wallace tells the BBC: We all have neighbors. We all have a house next door. What we know now is that extremism and antisemitism can lurk as close as any of our houses next door…This house now stands as a symbol against hate and as a warning that even in the ordinary, evil can lurk.