JNS reports today that the "International March of the Living" announced on Thursday a global campaign with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial to preserve thousands of shoes belonging to children, most of them Jews, who were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

It was added that around 8,000 children’s shoes found at Auschwitz are rapidly disintegrating and require immediate conservation so they can be retained as historic documentation, the Foundation said. The conservation project, called “From Soul to Sole,” will continue for two years. A global fundraising campaign has been launched to support the effort.