Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial

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Holocaust memorial in Budapest featuring 60 pairs of iron shoes symbolizing victims shot into the Danube in 1944.

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The Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial was created in 2005 by film director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer. It commemorates Hungarian Jews killed during World War II. Located near the Parliament Building, it has become one of Budapest’s most significant historical sites.