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‘Shoes on the Danube Bank’ in Budapest is a chilling reminder of the hardship Hungarian Jews faced at the hands of the Arrow Cross.
is one of the most thought-provoking and evocative pieces of public art I have ever seen.
As the title suggests, it is a display of some 60 pairs of shoes, cast in iron, which are scattered along the river embankment in Budapest to commemorate the thousands of Hungarian Jews who were ordered to remove their footwear before being shot and thrown in the water by members of the fascist Arrow Cross militia in 1944.
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