Video history | ‘Arbeit macht frei’ gate
„Arbeit macht frei” - work will set you free - is the inscription over the gate of the German Nazi Auschwitz I concentration camp, one of the most recognizable visual icons of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which for the world is a symbol of the crimes of World War II and the Holocaust.
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Artworks used in movie:
Władysław Siwek, "Return of the Penal Company from Labor," 1949.
Władysław Siwek, "At the Gate," 1946.
Mieczysław Kościelniak, "Killed During Escape – Block 24," 1972.
Jan Komski, "March to Work," 1990-1997.