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Holocaust survivors call for rescue of victims’ shoes

One of the last survivors of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has appealed to authorities to recover fragments of tens of thousands of shoes belonging to murdered Holocaust victims, recently discovered in a forest in the area. Manfred Goldberg, who was imprisoned as a teenager in Stutthof, 24 miles (38 km) east of Gdańsk, said… Read More »

The struggle to protect the grounds of the Stutthof Nazi camp

At the base of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent down to touch the black, damp shapes nestling among the mushrooms and leaf canopy. “I have been monitoring this area since 2015 and I hope that I will not come across anything anymore and that one day the entire area will be cleared,” he said.… Read More »