The restored “Arbeit macht frei” sign – which was stolen 17 months ago from the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland – has been unveiled.

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Restored Auschwitz sign unveiled

Things like this address:  (www.facebook.com/AuschwitzInterveneNow) It’s actually a good cause, trying to preserve the physical remains of Auschwitz, but the combination Facebook/Aushwitz makes me feel a little bit funny inside.

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A Jarring Aspect of Facebook

A Polish judge jails a Swedish man for 32 months for plotting the theft of the “Arbeit macht frei” Auschwitz entrance sign.

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Swede jailed for Auschwitz theft

Three people have been charged in last year’s theft of the famous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, a prosecutor said Friday.

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3 men charged in Auschwitz sign theft

In Berlin, on November 9th, people placed votive candles before a neighborhood synagogue. A sign in front of a busy train station reminded passersby that trains once took passengers to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Flossenbürg, and a host of other detention camps. And crowds thronged to an exhibition at the German Historical Museum: “Hitler and the Germans.” It was the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the massive pogrom perpetrated, in 1938, against Jewish homes, businesses and institutions in Berlin and nationwide. . . .

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SCOTT HORTON—Unpleasant Recollections

The late Pope John Paul II has been described as the inspiration for a possible compromise to the dispute over the proposed Islamic center and mosque in the World Trade Center vicinity — that it be withdrawn and built elsewhere, much as the late pontiff had canceled plans for a convent near the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Opinion: Pope John Paul’s hope on Islam