The Shoes on the Danube Promenade...

During the easter break I spent a couple of days in Budapest. In the course of my sightseeing “marathon“ I also came across the shoes lined up along the Danube bank. These 60 iron shoes represent the shoes from the jews that were killed during the Second World War (1944/45) by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen. They were ordered to take off their shoes, as shoes were valuable belongings at that time, before being shot at the edge of the river, where their bodies fell into the water were drifted away. The monument consists out of iron, but it looks very realistic. You have to look twice until you can tell that they are not real. 

“The Shoes on the Danube Promenade“ was completed on April 16^th 2005 by the sculptor Gyula Pauer and the film-director Can Togay. The monument is located on the Pest side  of the Danube Promenade, about 300 metres south of the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian Academy of Science.