Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial on the Pest bank of the Danube in Budapest, about 984 feet (300 meters) south of the Parliament. Film director Can Togay conceived it, and sculptor Gyula Pauer created it. It was unveiled on April 16, 2005. The article does not name a commissioner.
The memorial consists of sixty pairs of iron shoes along a stone embankment, with cast iron signs. The stone bench is 131 feet (40 meters) long and 28 inches (70 centimeters) high.
Signs in Hungarian, English and Hebrew honor 23,500 victims, about 20,000 of them Jews, who were shot into the Danube in 1944 and 1945, according to the signs.
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