LANDMARKS
Cattedrale di Palermo
Religious Building
STATUS
Visited.
SUMMARY
‘Shoes on the Danube Promenade’ is the sculpture of 60 pairs of shoes serves as a memorial and a monument to the Hungarian Jews who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were shot on the banks of the Danube River by the members of the Arrow Cross Party.
During this time, Jews in Budapest were often rounded up on the banks of the Danube before being shot into the water which would then carry them away. Even more harrowingly, they were regularly forced to remove their shoes as these were a valuable commodity during the war; their murderers would then sell them or use them themselves.
They were sculpted by Gyula Pauer in 2005.
OPENING
Open Every Day - Jan22
ACCESS
Free
REVIEW
LOCATION
Capella Palatina
Religious Building
STATUS
Visited.
SUMMARY
‘Shoes on the Danube Promenade’ is the sculpture of 60 pairs of shoes serves as a memorial and a monument to the Hungarian Jews who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were shot on the banks of the Danube River by the members of the Arrow Cross Party.
During this time, Jews in Budapest were often rounded up on the banks of the Danube before being shot into the water which would then carry them away. Even more harrowingly, they were regularly forced to remove their shoes as these were a valuable commodity during the war; their murderers would then sell them or use them themselves.
They were sculpted by Gyula Pauer in 2005.
OPENING
Open Every Day - Jan22
ACCESS
Free
REVIEW
LOCATION