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Sixty pairs of shoes on the Danube Bank

The composition entitled 'Shoes on the Danube Bank' gives remembrance to the people killed into the Danube during the time of the Arrow Cross terror. The sculptor created sixty pairs of period-appropriate shoes 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 killed into the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944–45.

Erected on 16 April 2005

"Cipők a Duna-parton budapesti holokauszt-emlékmű” Gyula Pauer

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Taken on March 16, 2012