Famous Auschwitz Sign Headed to Exhibition Center

The Guardian: The council that oversees the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has ruled that the Auschwitz sign will not return to its original spot.

It was taken for repairs following a 2009 theft. Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the memorial site in southern Poland, said the sign bearing the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) will be housed in an exhibition centre.

Sawicki added that the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, Piotr Cywinski, proposed to keep the sign in a secure indoor centre. This was accepted by the International Auschwitz Council at a two-day meeting that ended on Thursday. The council is made up of Holocaust survivors, historians and others.