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Photos: Preserving the silent witnesses to the Holocaust
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. Museum workers describe the children's shoes as one of the most emotional testaments of the crimes carried out at Auschwitz, where Nazi German forces murdered 1.1 million people during World War II.
A worker examines 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. German forces in World War II destroyed evidence of their atrocities at Treblinka and other camps, but they failed to do so entirely at the enormous site of Auschwitz as they fled the approaching Soviet forces in chaos toward the war's end.Â
A shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is scanned at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10. Most of the victims were Jews killed in dictator Adolf Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Miroslaw Maciaszczyk, a conservation specialist, takes a photo of 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. Most of the shoes are single objects. One pair still bound by shoelaces is a rarity.
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on May 10. A two-year effort has been launched in 2023 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.Â
A worker rubs away dust on 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. The museum is able to conserve about 100 shoes a week, and has processed 400 since the project began last month. The aim is not to restore them to their original state but to render them as close to how they were found at war's end as possible.Â
A worker uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of 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.
People visit one of the barracks displaying shoes collected from the prisoners of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10. Elżbieta Cajzer, head of the collections, described the shoes as powerful testimony because the huge heaps of shoes that remain give some idea of the enormous scale of the crimes, even though what is left is only a fraction of what was.Â
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a shoe that belonged to Vera Vohryzkova, 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. Vera was born Jan. 11, 1939, into a Jewish Czech family and was sent to Auschwitz in a transport from the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 with her mother and brother. Her father Max Vohryzek was sent in a separate transport. They all perished.Â
A worker rubs away dust on 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.
Miroslaw Maciaszczyk, a conservation specialist, scans 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.
Teenagers visit the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10.
Workers examine shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday.
A woman looks at an exhibition displaying the shoes of child victims of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10.
