Budapest in Capital City of Hungary, Central Hungary, Hungary — Central Europe
"Shoes on the Danube Bank"
Cipők a Duna-parton
Erected 2005.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Notable Events • War, World II. A significant historical month for this entry is December 1944.
Location. 47° 30.234′ N, 19° 2.684′ E. Marker is in Budapest, Central Hungary, in Capital City of Hungary. Memorial can be reached from Id. Antall József rfk. close to Zoltán Street, on the left when traveling north. The memorial is located on the riverside promenade. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Budapest, Central Hungary 1011, Hungary. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 1 other marker is within walking distance of this marker. Marastoni Jakab (approx. one kilometer away in Belváros).
More about this marker. "One picture (is) worth ten thousand words." Chinese proverb
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1. Shoes on the Danube Bank. The composition titled 'Shoes on the Danube Bank' gives remembrance to the 3,500 people, 800 of them Jews, who were shot into the Danube during the time of the Arrow Cross terror....
They were ordered to take off their shoes (shoes were valuable and could be stolen and resold by the militia after the massacre), and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank. -- Wikipedia (Submitted on October 23, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.)
2. The Shoes on the Danube Promenade – Commemoration of the Tragedy - Yad Vashem. The memorial is so effective because the touchable, corporeal shoes along the river, left behind empty and without their owners, force us to confront the question: whose shoes were they? Who were the people that are missing from the sculpture? (Submitted on October 23, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.)
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