"Shoes on the Danube Bank

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Holocaust Memorial Budapest

• "Shoes on the Danube Bank

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• The Shoes on the Danube Promenade, created by
  Gyula Pauer and Can Togay, is a memorial on the
  bank of the Danube in Budapest. It is located on
  the Pest side of the Danube Promenade, about300 m
  south of the Hungarian Parliament and near the
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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• A Cipok a Duna-parton elnevezésu kompozíció a
  nyilasterror idején Dunába lott embereknek állít
  emléket. A szobrászmuvész hatvan pár korhu
  lábbelit formált meg vasból. A parti szegély
  terméskövére erosített cipök mögött negyven méter
  hosszúságú, hetven centiméter magas kopad
  húzódik. Az emlékhely három pontján öntöttvas
  táblákon magyarul, angolul és héberül olvasható a
  felirat "A nyilaskeresztes fegyveresek által
  Dunába lott áldozatok emlékére állíttatott 2005.
  április 16-án". MTI 2005. április 16.

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• People stop ,
• watch , some take photos, others light candles or
  put flowers.

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• Some notice the plaques
• ( they are there, on the pavement , but not very
  visible, you have to look for them), others just
  look at the shoes. Some know what they stand for
  , others dont.

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• Some even tried to put their feet in the shoes
  THEY probably didnt know their meaning.

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• Translation The composition entitled 'Shoes on
  the Danube Bank' gives remembrance to the people
  shot into the Danube during the time of the Arrow
  Cross terror. The sculptor created sixty pairs of
  period-appropriate shoes out of iron. The shoes
  are attached to the stone embankment, and behind
  them lies a 40 meter long, 70 cm high stone
  bench. At three points are cast iron signs, with
  the following text in Hungarian, English, and
  Hebrew "To the memory of the victims shot into
  the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944-45.
  Erected 16 April 2005." (source MTI, Saturday,
  April 16, 2005.)

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This plaque stands on the bank of the Danube,
where the Nazis shot thousands and thousands of
Jews, tossing them into the river during the
Holocaust.
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The bank of the Danube river is very peaceful in
the evening. As the sun is setting, it gently
illuminates the backdrop of the shoe memorial.

• May ,2008