Not far from the gas chambers of the Auschwitz death camp, there is a house where the senior Nazi official Rudolf Hess, the commander of the Auschwitz death camp, who was responsible for the murder of millions of Jews and other peoples during the Holocaust, lived.
Hess was responsible for the "Final Solution" and introduced the idea of using the pesticide Cyclone B for use in the gas chambers, which were used to murder more than a million people. After the war, he was executed by hanging inside the camp he commanded.
About four months ago, they put a mezuzah on the lintel of this house. "It was the day we entered the house," Jacek Furski, who heads the Polish organization ARCHER, which fights radicalism, told Yedioth Ahronoth. "For us, it was the absolute victory over Rudolf Hess",
For 80 years, the house, adjacent to the Auschwitz Museum, was the property of a Polish family that returned to it after the Holocaust. Until a few years ago, Grazyna Yurczak, a 62-year-old widow, and her two sons lived there. "It was a great place to raise children," Yurczak said in an interview with The New York Times. "The house is next to the river, and in the winter, when the water would freeze, the children would surf on the ice."
One of the reasons she sold the house was because of the people who started stepping into her garden, peering through the windows and reminding her of the house's chilling connection to the Holocaust.
Itamar Eichner reported that last summer, Grazyna Yurczak agreed to sell her share of the house to the American organization Project Against Extremism, which also purchased a nearby house built after World War II. "We've been fighting for the purchase of this house for several years," says Fursky, who worked with the Auschwitz Museum as an expert on radicalism, extremism and hate crimes.
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