Are Shoes Proof of Mass Murder?

[Eye of Zyclone]

Shoes are like scratches in Krema I, just emotional appeals.

Not really. Because those shoes are real and those scratches are a postwar forgery (the autorities of the Auschwitz museum unconvincingly say "marks of vandalism made by visitors/tourists" for damage control purposes).

[Stubble]

Reviewing the USHMM I ran across their 'shoe exhibit'. It being a Holocaust Museum, I of course knew it had to have a shoe display, that wasn't the surprise, the surprise was a poem;

Spoiler

We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses.
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers.
From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam.
And because we are only made of stuff and leather
And not of blood and flesh, each one of us avoided the hellfire.

We shoes — that used to go strolling in the market
Or with the bride and groom to the chuppah,
We shoes from simple Jews, from butchers and carpenters,
From crocheted booties of babies just beginning to walk and go
On happy occasions, weddings, and even until the time
Of giving birth, to a dance, to exciting places to life…
Or quietly — to a funeral.
Unceasingly we go. We tramp.
The hangman never had the chance to snatch us into hisSack of loot — now we go to him.
Let everyone hear the steps, which flow as tears,
The steps that measure out the judgment.”

https://www.70voices.org.uk/content/day36

Apparently, being leather, the shoes were not flammable and were able to survive the fires so they could be the last and enduring witnesses to the Holocaust, the immutable truth that 6,000,000 jews were murdered by the nazis in homicidal gas chambers.

I was surprised, but only slightly.

[Wahrheitssucher]

Reviewing the USHMM I ran across their 'shoe exhibit'. It being a Holocaust Museum, I of course knew it had to have a shoe display, that wasn't the surprise, the surprise was a poem;

We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses…
We shoes — that used to go strolling in the market…
…Unceasingly we go. We tramp…
Let everyone hear the steps, which flow as tears…”

https://www.70voices.org.uk/content/day36

Apparently… the shoes were… the last and enduring witnesses to …the immutable truth that 6,000,000 jews were murdered...

Hmmm? So where did these 12,000,000 shoes go?