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Shoes on the Danube
Poignant memorial to Jews murdered in 1945 by Hungarian fascists in Budapest
[Nikodem Nijaki]

ON THE eastern bank of the Danube promenade, some 300 metres south of the parliament building in Budapest, there’s a 40-metre-long stretch at the very edge of the river occupied by 60 pairs of shoes.

Cast in iron and covered with a rust patina, some have flowers left in them.

Shoes on the Danube Promenade by Xorge


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