Jan Liwacz was a Polish blacksmith and prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp best known for making the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" slogan over the camp's main entrance gate.
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Jan Liwacz was a Polish blacksmith and prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp best known for making the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" slogan over the camp's main entrance gate. When the SS ordered him to make this sign, he turned the letter B upside down in the word Arbeit in what has been interpreted as an act of protest.
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Artists
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Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1898 to 1980 · aged 81
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