Polish police announced on the night from Sunday to Monday it had found the inscription in German "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes you free), stolen Friday, December 18 at the site of the former Nazi camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau ( southern Poland), and have arrested its alleged thieves.
'We arrested in northern Poland five men, aged 20 to 39 years. The inscription was found cut into three parts, explained the spokesman for the Krakow Police (South), Dariusz Nowak. 'They were arrested shortly before midnight and found the panel in a private house', he added, refusing other details. The inclusion of metal, measuring 5 feet long, appeared above the entrance to the extermination camp of Auschwitz installed by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland.
The infamous sign was stolen by unknown Friday at dawn. His death caused a great emotion, especially in Israel and among Jewish diaspora. 'We are very excited to see what state is the inscription said, relieved, a spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum. Our curators will take care of rehabilitation for her to return as soon as possible to its place. "