A poignant memorial on the bank of the Danube in Budapest are these cast iron shoes sculpted by Gyula Pauer and conceived by Can Togay. The shoes comm

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A poignant memorial on the bank of the Danube in Budapest are these cast iron shoes sculpted by Gyula Pauer and conceived by Can Togay. The shoes commemorate 3,500 people, including 800 Jews, forced by the fascist Arrow Cross militia during the Second World War to remove their shoes before being shot in the back so their bodies fell into the river

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Size: 6720px × 4480px
Photo credit: © grough.co.uk / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: arrow, budapest, capital, city, cross, danube, european, fascists, hungary, iron, jews, magyarorszá, metropolitan, persecution, river, sculpture, shoes, union