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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/NapalmBurns on 2024-11-24 03:32:43+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that the Auschwitz “Arbeit macht frei” sign features an inverted “B” - Jan Liwacz, Konzentrationslager prisoner who made the sign, inverted the letter in defiance of Nazi oppression. Jan Liwacz survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen and died in 1980 a respected and well known artisan smith.
I visited the place back in 2017. It was so fucking depressing and eye opening how efficiently horrific humanity is capable of; so much suffering existed there, that you could still almost feel the sadness emanating from the fucking walls.
I felt as if I had entered with innocence to the reality of the depravity that happened there and left the place a literally and figuratively completely different person. That’s how it impacted myself and my friends that came with me.