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‘Every piece of evidence is vital’: Holocaust survivor calls for victims’ shoes to be salvaged

A pile of shoes in a shed-like room
A display of prisoners’ shoes found at the site of Stutthof concentration camp. Photograph: Bartosz Bańka/The Guardian

One of the last remaining survivors of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has appealed to authorities to salvage fragments of tens of thousands of shoes belonging to murdered Holocaust victims that were recently discovered in a forest at the site.

Manfred Goldberg, who was imprisoned as a teenager at Stutthof, 24 miles (38km) east of Gdańsk, said he was “shocked and dismayed” to hear of the existence of the remnants, eight decades after the shoes’ owners were forced to remove them before being gassed and cremated.

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