Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving shoes of murdered children A two-year effort is underway to preserve 8,000 children's shoes at the former concentration and extermination camp ...

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Auschwitz museum conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children: 'Sometimes it's the only trace left' The work is important but heartbreaking. To stream 10TV on your phone, you need the 10TV app.