Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:51 AM
Fredrick Toben's latest book will be called ARBEIT MACHT FREI
Auschwitz death camp sign stolen
It is the first time in the camp's history that the sign has been stolen
The infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland has been stolen, officials there say.
The metal sign was taken from above the gate overnight. Police are looking for the culprits.
It is the first time the sign, made by prisoners, has been stolen since it was erected in the early 1940s.
More than a million people - 90% of them Jews - were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II.
"It's a terrible thing," Auschwitz official Pawel Sawicki told the BBC.
"The sign means everything - it's a symbol of what Auschwitz stands for. But a place where hundreds of thousands of people died obviously doesn't mean anything to the thieves," he said.
Mr Sawicki said the theft was probably planned.
The missing sign, which is occasionally removed by officials for conservation work, has been replaced by a replica.
During the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of prisoners passed under the sign, whose words mean "Work Sets You Free", but the vast majority were murdered or worked to death.
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From: John Bayldon [mailto:john@bayldon0.
Sent: Friday, 18 December 2009 7:32 PM
To: Fredrick Toben
Subject: Fw: Arbeit
'A few minutes ago BBC radio news broke the story that the 'Arbeit macht frei' sign (if I spelled it correctly) from the Auschwitz work camp has been stolen.
This has me pondering whether the thief may be the same one who stole all of the gas chambers from this and all the other 'death camps'?
And did he perhaps steal the holes from the remaining claimed gas chamber roofs while he was at it.
If so, he must be quite old by now, I see him, now in his dotage, hobbling through the vast airship hangars and cackling with glee as he surveys his secret hoard of Nazi eviltonalia, the Jew destroying Nazi death ray machines, diesel submarine engines, the shelves of human skin lampshades and Jewish soap.
Perhaps this latest theft is to be his final larceny, and his big mistake when he bolts the sign onto the entrance of his warehouse and this is spotted by the eagle-eyed detective inspector Goldberg of Dock Green police station 'Golders-of-the-
'Ello ello ello, what's all this 'ere, Arboyt Micked fry', the entire evidential proof of the ollocastin' O' six million sheeneys? Right mate, you're nicked.'
JB
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