![View of the main entrance to the Auschwitz camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work makes one free). [LCID: 0001]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/59778d5a-bdaa-4f66-aae9-40c527a555b1.jpg)
View of the gate at the entrance to the Auschwitz main camp. The sign above the gate says "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work will set you free"). The Nazis established the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland in 1940. This photograph was taken in May 1945, months after the camp's liberation by Soviet forces.
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