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Shoes on the Danube
Bank.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in
Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director
Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the
Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honor
the people who were killed by fascist Arrow
Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War
II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and
were shot at the edge of the water so that their
bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It
represents their shoes left behind on the bank.