On the banks of the Danube, the past can't be chased
Budapest is a city where history and culture, scenery and feelings coexist. Traveling in this city called the Danube Pearl will accidentally smash a piece of history. When we were going to visit the Capitol along the Danube, we saw a lot of people gathered on the empty river bank. It turned out that the famous Danube shoe sculptures are here.
Hungarians are a country that respects history very much. It seems that there is a lingering pain in World War II. A pair of iron shoes are placed on the ground of more than 20 meters of stone. There are many scattered among them. Candle bottles, or flowers, or dried branches. In Hungarian, it is called a "Holocaust Monument."
Between 1944 and 1945, approximately 600,000 Jews were killed in Hungary, a figure that accounts for 70% of Hungarian Jews. On the night of the October 15 coup, the Arrow Cross Party swept a large number of Jews to the Chain Bridge and the Margaret Bridge on the Danube in Budapest, and threw the bodies into the Danube. But they left their shoes, because the price of shoes at that time was very high, and it was a huge income when they got the black market to sell.
During the 170-day Arrow Cross rule, more Hungarian Jews and Gypsies were detained in concentration camps in Ozwisin, Poland and Dachau, Germany.
Now come to the Danube, you can see all kinds of iron shoes scattered on the ground, there are big and small, new and old, everything is telling the history of sadness.
In 2004, the Hungarian sculptor Bauuel Gyula produced 60 different iron shoes, placed on the bank of the massacre that occurred in the past, and the signs on the nearby ground were written in English, Hungarian and Hebrew. "Commemorating the victims of the Danube River massacre by 1944-1945."
Now, it has become a famous attraction in Budapest and a must-see for Israelis visiting Hungary. Some people who come to hang on offer some flowers, some put a candle, and others are used to put a stone on the edge of the shoe or in the shoe to express the memorial to the deceased.
Now there is no trace of blood and tears here. The past has already gone with the river of the Danube. The deceased is like a husband, staying up all night. The pain caused by the war has no borders or ethnicities. There are only those who are in peacetime, those who stand under the clear sky, and those who are saddened by the victims.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected to honour the Jews who were massacred by Fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.The Jews 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. The shoes which were valuable during that time were resold by the militia after the massacre.The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank. 👞
Whenever I pass here. I always feel inexplicable sentimentality. The past history staged the massacre here. Men, women, children are not spared. History bloodstains the Danube. But the problem of human rights and racial discrimination continues to this day.
The Danube is 2,850 kilometers long, the second major river in Europe after the Volga River, a river from west to east from Austria and other countries. The river. originated in the German Alps, flows through Germany,
A poignant Reminder to the Jews in Budapest during the second world war. Conveniently located
History of pain. Blood stained Danube. Nazi disgrace. Even today. Human rights. Racial discrimination still exists.
This has been planted for a long time, today finally has time, no thunder at all, the whole process is very enjoyable