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Stolen Auschwitz sign found cut into pieces

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) on Dec 21st 2009 at 1:30PM

Polish police have recovered the famous sign that hung over Auschwitz's main gate. The sign had been stolen in the early hours of Friday.

The sign reads "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") and is a well-known symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. About one million Jews, Gypsies, and political prisoners were killed in the concentration camp during the Nazi regime.

Police have arrested five men and found the sign cut into three pieces and hidden in a house. They are still investigating a motive.

The Auschwitz museum will now fix the sign and it will be back up in time for the 65th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Soviet army on January 27.

Filed under: History, Europe, Poland, News

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