The Shoes on the Danube Bank was created April 16, 2005 on the Pest side (east bank) of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary. Working with sculptor Gyula Pauer, Can Togay conceived the monument to honor the 3,500 people, 800 of them Jews, killed by the fascist Arrow Cross militiamen during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes and were then shot so their bodies would fall into the river to be carried away by the current. Their possessions and lives stolen.
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