A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism ...

The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done. His wife Hedwig and daughter Brigitte moved to the United States following his execution.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into ... Polish court and was executed by hanging at the site of the ...

The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed ... He was tried by a Polish court and was executed by hanging at the site of the concentration camp in 1947.