Shoes on the Danube
On the west bank of the Danube in Budapest is this moving memorial to honor the Jews who were killed by members of the Hungarian government’s Arrow Cross party during WWII. They were in power for just a few months in 1944/45, but during that time, hundreds of Jews were shot at this site and their bodies swept away by the Danube’s current. These poor people were made to remove their shoes (scarce during the war years) before being lined up 4 deep and killed. The shoes in the photo are iron, and period replicas of those worn by the countless victims of this tragedy. This was a very somber experience and the saddest of all the places I visited in Central Europe.
Shoes on the Danube
On the west bank of the Danube in Budapest is this moving memorial to honor the Jews who were killed by members of the Hungarian government’s Arrow Cross party during WWII. They were in power for just a few months in 1944/45, but during that time, hundreds of Jews were shot at this site and their bodies swept away by the Danube’s current. These poor people were made to remove their shoes (scarce during the war years) before being lined up 4 deep and killed. The shoes in the photo are iron, and period replicas of those worn by the countless victims of this tragedy. This was a very somber experience and the saddest of all the places I visited in Central Europe.