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After a three-day investigation Polish police recovered “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign. Auschwitz sign, cut into three pieces, was found in northern Poland. Police has arrested five men (25 to 39 yrs) and they will be questioned in Krakow. Benjamin Netanyahu - Israeli Prime Minister told, that the Auschwitz sign "is of the deepest historical importance to the Jewish people and the whole world, and is a tombstone for more than a million Jews.” Originally "Arbeit macht frei" (Work gives freedom... Read Full Story
Polish police said Monday they found the Nazi sign "Work Will Set You Free" from the Auschwitz death camp cut in three pieces after it was stolen by five suspects with no neo-Nazi links. Andrzej Rokita, commander in the nearby southern Polish city of Krakow, told reporters that "from the information we have none of the five belong to a neo-Nazi group nor hold such ideas". The five suspects, aged 20 to 39 and with criminal records for theft or violence, face up to 10 years in prison if... Read Full Story
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Polish police detained five men on Monday for stealing the metal sign that hung over the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, and said they were common thieves, not neo-Nazis. Last Friday's theft triggered widespread outrage, especially from Israel and Jewish groups, amid fears of a political motive. The sign, which carries the German motto "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free"), is a powerful symbol of the Holocaust committed by the Nazis against the Jews... Read Full Story
Polish police said Monday they had recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the former Auschwitz death camp, but said five arrested suspects had no neo-Nazi links. Andrzej Rokita, commander in the southern Polish city of Krakow, told reporters that "from the information we have none of the five belong to a neo-Nazi group nor hold such ideas". The five suspects, aged 20 to 39 and with previous criminal records for theft or violence, faced up to 10 years in prison if... Read Full Story
KRAKOW, Poland (AFP) -- Polish police said Monday they had recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the former Auschwitz death camp, but said five arrested suspects had no neo-Nazi links. Andrzej Rokita, commander in the southern Polish city of Krakow, told reporters that "from the information we have none of the five belong to a neo-Nazi group nor hold such ideas". The five suspects, aged 20 to 39 and with previous criminal records for theft or violence, faced up to 10... Read Full Story
Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves. "We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP. The suspects have no links to neo-Nazi groups, Polish police said on Monday. "They were picked up shortly... Read Full Story
WARSAW (AFP) -- Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves. "We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP. The suspects have no links to neo-Nazi groups, Polish police said on Monday. "They were... Read Full Story
Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves. "We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up into three pieces," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP. "They were picked up shortly before midnight and the sign was found in a house," he added without giving... Read Full Story
An iron sign stolen from the entrance to the Nazi-era Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland has been found, a police spokesperson said Monday.
The infamous - Arbeit macht frei - sign was found in a small town in northern Poland. It was sawn in three parts, each containing one word. Police detained five suspects, all of them men aged from 20 to 39.
The sign, which is German for "Work Sets You Free", disappeared between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. last Friday.
"The detained men are... Read Full Story
Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen Friday from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. "We have arrested five men aged from 20 to 39 in the north of Poland. The recovered sign has been cut up," Dariusz Nowak, spokesman for the police in southern Krakow, told AFP. Polish police had earlier stepped up border checks as they intensified the hunt for thieves who stole the infamous sign from the Auschwitz death camp... Read Full Story
