and the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy in Pułtusk, Poland.

Work began June 7, conducted by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum together with a team of scientists from Christopher Newport University in the U.S. If I had been born earlier, I might have been in their shoes.

It is a kind of inner need and obligation for me. I am glad that I can at least help them speak in this way. Now, thanks to our research, they can speak and tell a part of their story. They could not tell their own story because someone did not allow them to and decided that they had no right to live. Jacek Konik, an archaeologist and historian at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum who is leading the dig, told JHE. “Finding these objects and giving them to the world is for me giving a voice to their owners,” Dr. Jacek Konik holds a child’s shoe discovered at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Photo: Warsaw Ghetto Museum Discoveries during archaeological excavations this summer on the site of the WW2 Warsaw Ghetto are shedding dramatic - and poignant - light on the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Jews confined to the area and are furthering research on the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. General view of the excavations on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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