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A uniformed soldier stands atop a mound of shoes outside of a large warehouse. Hundreds of shoes of every size and shape come up to the middle of the warehouse doors and appear to go on in perpetuity.
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To many people, images of shoes are stark reminders of the fragility of life during the Holocaust. In some cases, piles of shoes provide one of the few lasting signs of those who had been murdered at death camps. In other images, you see survivors being fitted with shoes as they struggle to emerge from horrendous circumstances.

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Boots issued to Jacob Polak by the Red Cross [LCID: 1998l0ju]
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Boots issued to Jacob Polak by the Red Cross
Drawing of shoes by a Jewish teenager in hiding
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Drawing of shoes by a Jewish teenager in hiding
Jewish forced laborers at work making shoes in a ghetto workshop. [LCID: 10813]
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Jewish forced laborers making shoes
Jewish orphans fleeing Europe are fitted with shoes from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), en ... [LCID: 66639]
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Jewish orphans trying on shoes
After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims ... [LCID: 77028]
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Shoes belonging to victims of Flossenbürg
A pair of shoes left behind after a deportation action in the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81082]
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Shoes left behind after a deportation action in the Kovno ghetto
Shoes of victims in the Janowska camp were found by Soviet forces after the liberation of Lvov. [LCID: 85615]
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Shoes of victims in the Janowska camp
Soon after liberation, a British woman helps a camp survivor try on shoes. [LCID: 45014]
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Trying on shoes
A uniformed soldier stands atop a mound of shoes outside of a large warehouse. Hundreds of shoes of every size and shape come up to the middle of the warehouse doors and appear to go on in perpetuity.
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Victims' shoes at Majdanek

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