Shoes from Auschwitz victims are a link to a nightmare in the past
The entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp with the sign 'Work sets you free' Source: Getty / Mirrorpix
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The Nazi concentration camps set up by Hitler’s regime in World War Two are surely among the grimmest occurrences of the 20th century. One of the most notorious was Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland. Now the local museum has begun a two year project as an emotional testament of lives brutally cut short. And a warning - this story contains some graphic descriptions of conditions within concentration camps.
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