When shoes have more value than people.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary, inaugurated on 16 April 2005. Created by director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer, it honors the thousands of Jewish victims killed by the Arrow Cross Party during World War II. Victims were forced to remove their shoes, which were valuable items that could be resold, before being shot at the river’s edge. This left their shoes behind as a haunting reminder of the tragedy.
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Krista Marson 
WHEW!!! Got it cut in one DAY!!! So much of what I’m reading lately stands as a response to what we’ve been discussing or what you’re writing about. I’ve just read a piece in The Nation about Billy Wilder… https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/billy-wilder-hollywood-zionism-holocaust/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%208.18.2025&utm_term=daily Wilder helped produce and direct the documentaries about the liberation of the death camps, which included scenes of the tons of clothing (like shoes) the Nazis stored away.
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