The Heartbreaking Story Behind Budapest’s Shoes Memorial!
Explore the poignant Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial in budapest, a tribute to those lost during world war ii. This powerful memorial features shoes left behind, standing as a somber reminder on the danube river. Don’t miss this significant site in hungary.
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 [hu] to honour thousands of people massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. Victims 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.
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Budapest❤
Historical place❤
Beautiful Budapest. That part Telling the Painful Part of History. Memoriam. I have Tears….
Multat nem letagadni kell hanem feldolhozni és tanulni belőlle!ha nem tanultál belőlle. Akkor hiába haltak meg😢
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