Shoes on the Danube

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer.  The memorial represents the atrocities which were carried out by the Arrow Cross party in the Winter of 1944/1945 on Jewish Hungarians.  Their shoes were removed as they could be used and were valuable, then they were shot and their bodies fell into the river.


From there we walked around the Houses of Parliament.  A most magnificent building.  It had some water jets which were cooling everyone off (it got to 33C today) - first extra.  We walked to the station and then visited the Central Market (very like Queen Victoria markets in Melbourne) and then we did a river cruise. 



An early post as we are heading out to dinner at an 'authentic' Hungarian restaurant but it does have good reviews so I am looking forward to it.