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

Manfred Goldberg, 94, urges authorities to preserve fragments of thousands of shoes left to rot at Stutthof concentration camp site

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 Gdask, 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.