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Shirley Zhu.

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.
Posted: Oct 17, 2019
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