Auschwitz - Heaps of Discarded Shoes

After people arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, some were selected for death in the gas chamber. Those individuals were brought to showers which had numbered hooks for clothes. People about to shower, after a long journey in a crowded cattle car, were told to remember their clothes-hook number - so they could retrieve their personal items after the shower.

Instead, their personal items were rounded up, after what really happened in the Auschwitz showers, and discarded - like these heaps of shoes.