What's In a Sign? Images of Detention, Then and Now
From Auschwitz to.....McCook, Nebraska?
Then: the entrance gate at Auschwitz. “Arbeit Macht Frei’" (Work makes one free). (1)
Now: the entrance at McCook, Nebraska
“Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday afternoon (August 19, 2025) that the McCook Work Ethic Camp, currently a minimum-security prison, will be repurposed into a detention facility to hold immigration detainees as they await court hearings or deportation flights.” (2)
(1) Source: Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu, via https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MWCHICLAWMEET1218