the struggle to preserve the soles of the Nazi camp Stutthof

At the base of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent to touch the black, damp shapes nestling among the fungi and leaf mulch. "I have been watching this area since 2015 and always hope that I will not come across anything more and that one day the entire area will be cleared," he said. However, this was not that day.

The 39-year-old poet, scientist and rock musician was walking in the forest, just meters from the fence of what was once the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof in the German-annexed area of ​​Poland, and which is now a memorial site in ...