Children’s shoes at Auschwitz Museum.

"The vast quantity of shoes in the enormous heaps on display illustrates the dimensions of the phenomenon of the concentration camp and the Holocaust, while the examination of a single shoe reveals the story of an individual human being. In the case of the shoes that underwent conservation, these are the stories of children. The conservation of the children’s shoes was the final stage in a larger project to preserve all the shoes in the display cases. The conservation of the children’s shoes was awarded a prize as Museum Event of the Year in 2005."

Photos by Tomasz Irzyk ; photo source auschwitz.org.