An archway at Theresienstadt bearing the phrase, "Arbeit Macht Frei."

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 98084

Overview

Caption: An archway at Theresienstadt bearing the phrase, "Arbeit Macht Frei."

This image is one contained in an album found by Jacob Igra in an apartment in Sosnowiec after the war. Many of the photographs are believed to have been taken by a soldier with the SD-SIPO (Sicherheitspolizei) following the invasion of Poland in 1939. Additional photographs depict einsatzgruppen activities at sites throughout Nazi occupied Eastern Europe and may have been later additions to the album.
Date: 1941
Locale: Theresienstadt, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Terezin
Czech Republic
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jacob Igra

Source Record ID: Collections: 2007.85

Keyword: ARBEIT MACHT FREI DOORWAYS EXTERIORS FENCES THERESIENSTADT
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Theresienstadt -- WARTIME -- Views