Shoes on the Danube Promenade

[Weatherman2020]

During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.

60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.

 

[depotoo]

That is so sad, but glad the memorialized it.

 

[defcon4]

During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.

Could you be more specific about the date range? WWII started on September 1, 1939 as a generally accepted date, and ended May 8, 1945 in Europe, then September 2, 1945 on the Pacific.

 

[depotoo]

During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.

Could you be more specific about the date range? WWII started on September 1, 1939 as a generally accepted date, and ended May 8, 1945 in Europe, then September 2, 1945 on the Pacific.

According to wiki-

Most of the murders along the edge of the River Danube took place around December 1944 and January 1945, when the members of the Arrow Cross Party police ("Nyilas") took as many as 20,000 Jews from the newly established Budapest ghetto and executed them along the river bank