WARSAW, Poland — Among the artifacts at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, at the site of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps of World War II, are 110,000 shoes, 3,800 suitcases, 246 tallits (Jewish prayer shawls), 8,000 letters from prisoners and reams of documents from the SS, Adolf Hitler's terrifying paramilitary force.
The sheer size of the archive that documents how 1.1 million people perished there during the Holocaust forces the museum's keepers to at least try to distance themselves emotionally from their work.
