Shoes on the Danube Bank

This guide to Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest opens at the sixty pairs of cast-iron shoes fixed to the water's edge, a memorial to the winter of 1944 into 1945, when Hungary's Arrow Cross militia marched Jewish men, women and children to this riverbank. It traces why the shoes are left empty and who built the memorial six decades later, film director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer, both shaped by family memories of that winter. Take a moment at the water's edge before you move on.