"Shoes on the bank of the Danube" is a monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and in particular the memory of the victims of the Hungarian fascist organization, the Arrow Cross, which carried out mass murders of the Jewish population in the last years of World War II. The monument is located on the Danube Promenade Memorial in Pest. It has the form of 60 pairs of shoes from the 1940s "scattered" along the river bank.
The unusual form of the monument refers to the way in which the Arrow Cross soldiers murdered Jews. The victims gathered on the banks of the Danube were ordered to line up and take off their shoes. Then the victims were shot and their bodies fell into the water and were taken with the flow of the river.
The originator of this monument was the Hungarian director Can Togay. His idea was implemented by the Hungarian sculptor Gyula Pauer, who designed and constructed the monument. The shoes were cast of iron. The ceremonial unveiling of the monument took place on April 16, 2005.
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