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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Artist to weld copy of Dachau gate in Leeds performance piece

A replica of the iron gate with the slogan ‘Arbeit macht frei' (Work will set you free) at the entrance to the Nazi concentration camp memorial site in Dachau, near Munich, Germany.
A replica of the original iron gate with the slogan ‘Arbeit macht frei' (Work will set you free) at the entrance to the Nazi concentration camp memorial site in Dachau, near Munich, Germany. Photograph: Lukas Barth-Tuttas/EPA

A replica of the entrance gate to the Dachau Nazi concentration camp is to be recreated over three days in Leeds for an art project asking questions about what memorials are for and who has the right to make them.

Dachau was constructed a few miles from Munich in 1933. During the war it became a death camp where more than 41,000 people were murdered before US troops liberated it on 29 April 1945.

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