Tour Auschwitz with Survivor Eliezer Hauser Shimoni

The sign over Auschwitz read "Arbeit macht frei" which means "Work liberates." The prisoners' lives depended on their ability to work. Forced laborers were periodically subjected to selections, to weed out those weakened by overwork, disease, or hunger. Of course, S.S. soldiers could simply decide to kill a worker for any reason at all.