Shoes

A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland this week destroyed one of the wooden barracks and about 10,000 shoes of murdered Holocaust prisoners that were displayed at the Nazi death camp.

A friend posted the news as his facebook status and wrote that he “thinks this has to be one of the saddest days. The shoes belonged to some of the 600,000 Jewish men, women and children who were executed by the Nazis.”

One commenter so aptly summed up the true tragedy, saying, “The shoes went the way of their owners. The saddest part is that the shoes were saved but their owners were not.”