heloise bourgois: mostly, those shoes come from hungary.ght weeks in 1944, some 425,000 jews were deported to auschwitz from hungary. the gas chambers were so busy, that these hungarians were forced to wait their turn in the trees by crematorium 4. heloise bourgois: sometimes, we can tell there is like the brand or the manufacturer written. and so we can tell, oh, that comes from a region close to budapest. malcolm: the conservators may not know the identities of the children whose shoes survived, but this is the man directly responsible for their deaths. adolf eichmann was one of the architects of hitler's final solution and personally directed the deportation of hungarian jews before fleeing to argentina after the war. eichmann was abducted by mossad, and taken to israel, where he went on trial in 1961. >> in the spirit of the indictment, i am not guilty. malcolm: eichmann was found guilty of crimes against the jewish people and hanged. rudolf hoess, the commandant of auschwitz, on the right, also went to the gallows, but josef mengele, k

malcolm: art historian heloise bourgois, from bordeaux in france, was drawn to poland by her interestdisplaced people. >> we want to connect issues with the identity of the person because that's the beautiful part of it. the ugly part of it is that we don't have the identities of the person. malcolm: but on very rare occasions, they do find a link. this shoe belonged to six-year-old amos steinberg from prague in the czech republic who was murdered with his mother in 1944. his father ludvig, who was deported to auschwitz on an earlier transport, survived the war and became a school principal in israel. >> most of those shoes come from hungary. malcolm: in just eight weeks in 1944, some 425,000 jews were deported to auschwitz from hungary. the gas chambers were so busy, that these hungarians waited their turn in the trees by crematorium four. >> sometimes, we can tell there is like the brand or the manufacturer written. and so we can tell, oh, that comes from a region close to budapest. malcolm: the conservators may not know the identities of the children whose shoes survived, but this