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.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum has launched an effort to preserve 8,000 shoes that belonged to children before they were murdered at the Nazi camp.

Mirek Maciaszczyk, Coordinator, Historian, Auschwitz Shoe Conservation Project (through interpreter): You need to keep a certain separation while working with objects such as children's shoes.

Museum works to preserve shoes belonging to Auschwitz's youngest victims On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz ...

A pair of shoes belonging to a six-year-old named Amos Steinberg were found in Auschwitz with a handwritten note stuffed inside. Steinberg and his mother were deported to the camp in 1944, where ...

Among the over 500 objects and 400 photographs are hundreds of personal items that beloved to survivors and victims of Auschwitz, including suitcases, eyeglasses and shoes.