Monday, May 15, 2023

Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children

A worker holds a shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

A two-year effort is underway to preserve 8,000 children's shoes at the former concentration and extermination camp where German forces murdered 1.1 million people during World War II.

(Image credit: Michal Dyjuk/AP)

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