With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility,

The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest,” will soon welcome visitors.

A house is a house,” said Jacek Purski., who is involved in the project. “But it is in uninteresting, regular houses like this where extremism is happening today.”

She describes it as an idyllic place to raise her sons, apart from the fact that Auschwitz sat on the other side of the wall. Now, the home that Grazyna Jurczak occupied for more than four decades—one the public learned housed the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss via the Oscar-winning Zone of Interest—will cease to be a residence.

The family who have lived there since 1982 sold the house last year and it will now become the home of the ‘Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation’.