Preserving the Heartbreaking Legacy of 8000 Children's Shoes at Auschwitz Museum

The Auschwitz museum has launched a two-year project 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 shoes are being conserved in a modern laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, where they are scanned, photographed, and catalogued in a database. The project's cost of 450,000 euros ($492,000) is funded by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, to which Germany has been a key donor, as well as the International March of the Living, a Holocaust education program.