Shoes on the Danube Bank
Danube River, Budapest | |
Completion date | 16 April 2005 |
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The Shoes on the Danube Bank (
Memorial
The monument is located on the
"The composition titled 'Shoes on the Danube Bank' gives remembrance to the 3,500 people, 800 of them Jews, who were shot into the Danube during the time of the Arrow Cross terror.[2] The sculptor created sixty pairs of period-appropriate shoes out of iron. The shoes are attached to the stone embankment, and behind them lies a 40 meter long, 70 cm high stone bench. At three points are cast iron signs, with the following text in Hungarian, English, and Hebrew: "To the memory of the victims shot into the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944–45. Erected 16 April 2005."[3]
History
Most of the murders along the edge of the River Danube took place around December 1944 and January 1945, when the members of the Hungarian
During World War II,
Italian Giorgio Perlasca did the same, sheltering Jews in the Spanish Embassy.
On the night of 8 January 1945, an Arrow Cross execution brigade forced all the inhabitants of the building on Vadasz Street to the banks of the Danube. At midnight,
Erwin K. Koranyi, a psychiatrist in Ottawa, wrote about the night of 8 January 1945 in his Dreams and Tears: Chronicle of a Life (2006), "in our group, I saw Lajos Stoeckler" and "The police holding their guns at the Arrowcross cutthroats. One of the high-ranking police officers was
Pal Szalai was honored as
Karoly Szabo was honored as Righteous Among the Nations on 12 November 2012.[12]
2014 defacement
In September 2014, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported that several bronze shoes were stolen from the Danube Holocaust memorial, citing the Budapest Beacon. Ha'aretz noted that "it was not immediately clear whether the theft in Budapest, not far from the Hungarian parliament building, was an anti-Semitic act or a meaningless prank. Police said they were not investigating the case because no crime has been reported, said Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag."[13]
Gallery
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Swedish Legation Budapest 1944
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Document[14] in the National Archives of Hungary 1945. Thank you letter from Lajos Stöckler, President of the Jewish Community of Budapest, to Karoly Szabo for rescuing 154 persons and his family (8 persons).
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Righteous among the Nations
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The shoes of Sivan Shahrabani, who was murdered in the Re'im music festival massacre, in the "Shoes on the Danube Bank" memorial
See also
- Carl Lutz
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Miklós Vig
- The Holocaust
- List of people who assisted Jews during the Holocaust
References
- ^ Népszabadság Online, 15 April 2005.
- ISBN 9781412851886. Retrieved 14 May 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ MTI, Saturday, 16 April 2005.
- ^ "Budapest". encyclopedia.ushmm.org.
- ^ "Getting Out Alive (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Book 1)". www.goodreads.com.
- ^ "The Azrieli Foundation".
- ^ "Karoly Szabo - Wallenberg, 1947, 1965". www.spacetime-sensor.de. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ Letter from Jacob Steiner 12 February 2007 to Tamas Szabo
- ISBN 978-1-897113-47-9. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- ^ "Israel honors Hungarians who saved Jews". NBC News. Associated Press. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda - ^ "Album Archive". picasaweb.google.com. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ Haaretz (10 September 2014). "Part of Holocaust Memorial Exhibit Stolen From Banks of Danube". Haaretz. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ASIN B004UB36KG.
Bibliography
- Gábor, Forgács (2006). Emlék és Valóság: mindennapjaim Raoul Wallenberggel [Recollections and Facts: My Days with Raoul Wallenberg] (in Hungarian). Budapest: Kolor Optika. ISBN 9789630600309.
- Koranyi, Erwin K. (2006). Dreams and Tears: Chronicle of a Life. General Store Publishing House. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-1-897113-47-9.
- Szekeres, József (1997). A pesti gettok 1945 januari megmentese: "a magyar Schindler", Szalai Pal visszaemlekezesei es mas dokumentumok [Saving the Ghettos of Budapest in January 1945: "Hungarian Schindler," Pal Szalai's recollections]. Varostorteneti tanulmanyok (in Hungarian). Budapest: Budapest Fovaros Leveltara [Budapest Archives]. ISBN 978-963-7323-14-0.
External links
Media related to Shoes on the Danube Promenade at Wikimedia Commons
- Rescue Story on the Danube Bank in Yad Vashem Database of Righteous
- Gyula Pauer site including a map, photographs and a film
- Jewish Budapest site
- Edith Ernster remembers
- Document about January 8, 1945. in Budapest Archives (Hungarian)
- Other documents about January 8, 1945. (English)
- Photographs of the shoes at Szoborlap.hu
- Jewish.hu - The shoes on the river