The Shoes on the Danube
Promenade, created by Gyula
Pauer and Can Togay, is a
memorial on the bank of the
Danube in Budapest. It is
located on the Pest side of
the Danube Promenade at the
end of Szechenyi Street, about
300 m south of the Hungarian
Parliament and near the
Hungarian Academy of
Sciences.Shoes on the Danube
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The Shoes on the Danube
Promenade, created by Gyula
Pauer and Can Togay, is a
memorial on the bank of the
Danube in Budapest. It is
located on the Pest side of
the Danube Promenade at the
end of Szechenyi Street, about
300 m south of the Hungarian
Parliament and near the
Hungarian Academy of
Sciences.Shoes on the Danube
is a memorial to the people
who fell victim to the Arrow
Cross militiamen in Budapest
and depicts their shoes left
behind on the bank when they
fell into the river after
having been shot during World
War II.At first, during World
War II, 250 coworkers of
Wallenberg were working around
the clock to prevent the
Jewish population from being
sent to concentration camps;
this figure later rose to
approximately 400. People,
amongst whom Lars Ernster,
Edith Ernster and Jacob
Steiner can be counted, were
housed at the Swedish Embassy
in Budapest on �?ll�?i Street
2-4 and 32 other buildings in
Budapest that Wallenberg
rented and then declared as
extraterritorial to prevent
the people housed in them from
being sent to concentration
camps.On the night of January
8, 1945, all of the
inhabitants of the building on
�?llöi Street were rounded up
and dragged away to the banks
of the Danube by an Arrow
Cross execution brigade from
the city commandership. At
midnight, Karoly Szabo and 20
policemen with drawn bayonets
broke into the Arrow Cross
house and rescued everyone
there (see also historic
frontpage 1947 newspaper).
[2]. Among the people saved
were Lars Ernster, who fled to
Sweden and became a member of
the board of the Nobel
Foundation from 1977 to 1988,
and Jacob Steiner, who fled to
Israel and became a professor
at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.Information from
Jacob Steiner after he has
read this page: On December
25, 1944, Jacob Steiner's
father was shot dead by Arrow
Cross militiamen on, falling
into the Danube as a result.
His father had been an officer
in World War I and spent 4
years as a prisoner of war in
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