Auschwitz Sign Stolen - Nazi "Arbeit Macht Frei" Sign Gone

Surely the scrap metal is worth more than 5,000 zloty?

I'd suspect my grandmother, but she has a solid alibi, being on a different continent. (She'd want to destroy the sign, though, not sell it)

This is not for first time,nor last time, that signs and artifacts have been stolen from musuems,public places.Erection by neo-nazis being near impossible,sign may fetch a handsome price by some follower of Hitler.

the most important aspect to remember is the 1 million who were killed which was mainly about 900,000 Jews. The sign is just a piece of metal and has already been replaced.

This is really sick stuff! I'm inclined to agree with t k kidwai here. There seems to be a lot of unconscionable people out there in the world today that take great delight in dismantling historical evidence and reminders piece by piece.

We have not heard enough about the non-Jews who were sent to the camps.

eastvanray

Please allow me to suggest a book about those you speak.

A Woman's Prison Journal:  Germany 1944

By Louise Rinser

This is her true story, and she was neither Jewish, nor communist.  She was sent to a women's prison in Traunstein in Bavaria.  She kept a secret diary while she awaited an almost certain death sentence for high treason for which she was framed.  She speaks about many others who were imprisoned including to mention a few, Germans; Polish; French; Jehovah Witnesses.  It gives insight to Nazi Germany and their methods of objectifying human beings both Jewish and non-Jewish.

One of the questions she poses in the book: "Would it not be a thousand times better to get rid of prisons and detention centres?  People are never improved by humiliation, by crushing them, but by education, by raising their awareness of themselves and by correctly guiding their energies.  If that could only be understood for once."

She concludes early in her incarceration that before coming to prison she judged people readily, but now she realized that the nets of human suffering are cast widely and at the root is poverty, emotions, thoughtless, and blundering.  She suggests that acts of transgression rise out of mental incapability which are better suited to be resolved by a psychiatrist than a judge. 

She was very much ahead of time in these thoughts.

The criminally insane do require life time incarceration. 

The people in the prison with Ms. Rinser are not criminally insane, and many are political prisoners.   

Find it and them.

This sign is probably quite valuable on the black market. It is one of the only things on the planet constructed entirely by jews. It would be impossible to replace since the only work jews have ever done is when they were forced to by the nazi's.