SHOES ON THE DANUBE BANK, Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
SHOES ON THE DANUBE BANK, Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺 Shoes on the Danube Promenade is a haunting tribute to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII, created by film director Can Togay and the sculptor, Gyula Pauer. Installed along the bank of the Danube River in Budapest, the monument consists of 60 pairs of 1940s-style shoes, true to life in size and detail, sculpted out of iron. The style of footwear - a man’s work boot; a businessman’s loafer; a woman’s pair of heels; even the tiny shoes of a child - were chosen specifically to illustrate how no one, regardless of age, gender, or occupation was spared. Placed in a casual fashion, as if the people just stepped out of them, these little statues are a grim reminder of the souls who once occupied them - yet they also create a beautiful place of reflection and reverence. This memorial is simple yet chilling, depicting the shoes left behind by the thousands of Jews who were brutally shot along the bank...