A powerful social media image: Holocaust shoes July 28, 2020July 29, 2020Judith Kilborn View this post on Instagram These shoes are a powerful reminder of lives lost during the Holocaust. In July 1944, Soviet forces liberated the Majdanek camp. It was the first major concentration camp to be encountered. The SS had hastily fled with most of the prisoners. The shoes, shown in our Museum, were among the haunting evidence of Nazi crimes Soviet forces uncovered. #holocaust #artifact A post shared by US Holocaust Memorial Museum (@holocaustmuseum) on Jul 29, 2020 at 7:48am PDT