The Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.
Photo: EPA
Shoes of Holocaust victims stolen in Poland
Eight pairs of shoes taken from Majdanek concentration camp museum; police launch investigation.
Polish authorities say that eight shoes that once belonged to Holocaust victims have been stolen from the former concentration camp Majdanek in Poland, now a state-run museum.
The Polish news agency PAP reported Tuesday that police believe the theft occurred between November 18 and November 20, when a museum employee discovered that a metal net that protected an exhibit of shoes had been cut and the shoes were missing.
Shoes on display at the Majdanek concentration camp which is now a museum (Photo: EPA)
Holocaust victims' shoes at Majdanek (Photo: EPA)
The exhibit consists of 56,000 shoes that belonged to Jews killed at the death camp, which was operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.
Such exhibitions, which can be found at Auschwitz and other Holocaust memorial sites, aim to give viewers a sense of the huge proportion of the Nazi crimes.
