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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Arbeit macht frei

Holocaust survivors walk below the gate with its inscription 'Work sets you free' after a wreath laying at the death wall at the memorial site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz during ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020 (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
January 25, 2022, 4:28 am
Dutch tourist held after making Nazi salute at Auschwitz
Woman released and fined, says Heil Hitler gesture made during photo beneath ‘Arbeit macht frei’ gate was a bad joke
By AFP
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask, gestures as he speaks to supporters while arriving at a ministerial meeting at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 2020. (Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images)
May 13, 2020, 9:22 am
Brazil leader blasted for virus motto recalling Auschwitz’s ‘Arbeit macht frei’
Jewish leaders say Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘Work, unity and the truth will set Brazil free’ slogan offends memory of Holocaust victims
By Marcus M. Gilban
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
August 25, 2019, 9:07 pm
US Army commander suspended after using ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ in memo
Soldier employs phrase displayed at Auschwitz death camp to headline section detailing incentives, including time off, available to recruiters
By Marcy Oster
People leave the Volkswagen factory at Gate 17 in Wolfsburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 4, 2019, 5:43 pm
Volkswagen funds ADL office in Germany for combating anti-Semitism in Europe
Move comes months after carmaker’s CEO drew criticism for apparent wordplay on Nazi phrase ‘arbeit macht frei’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen AG, attends the annual press conference of the car manufacturer Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, Germany, March 12, 2019. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)
March 22, 2019, 1:55 pm
Volkswagen CEO in the hot seat for invoking Nazi phrase
Herbert Diess has apologized for saying ‘ebit macht frei’ in apparent play on ‘arbeit macht frei,’ but continues to face questions over his future
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 28, 2018, 12:53 am
Rebuffing ire over bill, Warsaw says Auschwitz, ‘Arbeit macht frei’ not Polish
Mateusz Morawiecki signals backing for bill criminalizing blaming Poles for Holocaust atrocities, amid escalating row with Israel
By ToI Staff
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp, on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
January 17, 2018, 10:47 pm
Poland jails Belarussians who stripped naked at Auschwitz, slaughtered lamb
Court sentences two men to 18 months and 14 months respectively for desecrating a memorial site and animal cruelty
By AFP
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
October 6, 2017, 10:56 pm
Cambridge college sorry for confusion over Auschwitz photo on welcome pamphlet
Dean of Emmanuel College says implication image meant as a joke ‘infuriating,’ explains photo meant to accompany sermon about trip to death camp
By ToI Staff
This photo from October 19, 2012 shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 25, 2017, 7:46 am
FBI investigating threats against Jewish and Latino Cal State students
Posters at Long Beach university’s multicultural center show Hitler alongside slogan from Auschwitz Nazi camp
By JTA
The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)
August 15, 2017, 8:39 pm
Polish TV parodies Auschwitz sign in story about Germany
In report on calls for German compensation for WWII, Republika TV changes ‘work sets you free’ to ‘reparations set you free’
By JTA
People stand behind the gate with the inscription 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp in Oranienburg, about 35 kilometers north of Berlin, April 23, 2017. Commemorations will be held on Sunday on the occasion of the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 23, 2017, 8:06 pm
Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 72 years ago
‘By remembering, we want to give space in our lives for the dead and the survivors,’ says Germany’s culture minister
By AP
Journalists take pictures of the original iron gate with the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work will set you free') at the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, on February 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Uwe Lein)
February 22, 2017, 6:30 pm
Stolen ‘Work will set you free’ gate returned to Dachau
Emblematic sign from Nazi camp recovered in Norway after anonymous tip-off; German police investigating if neo-Nazis behind theft
By AFP
Pope Francis walks towards the main entrance with the lettering 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland on July 29, 2016 (AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
January 31, 2017, 11:35 am
Belgians face decade in prison for Auschwitz theft
2 men in their 50s on trial in Poland for stealing part of concentration camp electric fence
By AFP
A Holocaust survivor places flowers in commemoration of the people killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland on Jan. 27, 2017, the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Nazi death camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 27, 2017, 1:21 pm
Elderly survivors return to Auschwitz, 72 years after liberation
German FM says death camp’s name stands for entire Nazi ‘murder machinery’ that remains part of his country’s history
By Vanessa Gera
The iron gate from the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work will set you free') is displayed Saturday Dec. 3, 2016, after being found earlier this week by police in Bergen, Norway. (Marit Hommedal/NTB scanpix via AP)
December 3, 2016, 5:57 pm
Norway police: Probe of stolen Nazi camp gate may be complicated
Investigation into Dachau entranceway uncovered in a Norwegian parking lot turns up ‘no usable evidence,’ officials say
By JAN M. OLSEN
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