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The Shoes on the Danube Bank (Hungarian: Cipők a Duna-parton) is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [] to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.
Nov 27, 2017 · On the banks of the Danube, just in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building, stand 60 pairs of iron shoes, pointed towards the river. Poignant in their simplicity, a tragic story lies behind this memorial to the hundreds who lost their lives as a result of the atrocities committed by Budapest’s Arrow Cross militiamen during the Second World War.
- Alex Mackintosh
The "Shoes on the Danube Bank" memorial in Budapest, Hungary, consists of 60 pairs of iron shoes, all of which are life-sized to represent real shoes of men, women, and children. The shoes are modeled after styles worn in the 1940s, reflecting the period when the victims were killed. The individual shoes vary in size just as in real life, but ...
Shoes 1. On the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, not far from the Hungarian Parliament building, sit sixty pairs of old-fashioned shoes, the type people wore in the 1940s. There are women's shoes, there are men's shoes and there are children's shoes. They sit at the edge of the water, scattered and abandoned, as though their owners had ...
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Nov 13, 2014 · Shoes on the Danube Promenade is a haunting tribute to this horrific time in history, created by film director Can Togay and the sculptor, Gyula Pauer. Installed along the bank of the Danube River ...
Aug 2, 2016 · Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial. Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945. Last Updated: August 2, 2016. facebook sharing. x sharing. email sharing.
Jan 8, 2018 · The Shoes on the Danube Promenade was conceptualized by film director Can Togay, who later created it together with the sculptor Gyula Pauer. In 2005, they installed the memorial on the east bank of the Danube river, placing three iron signs that read in Hungarian, English, and Hebrew: “To the memory of victims shot into the Danube by Arrow ...
