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Shoe Sculpture on the Danube - Budapest
Shoe Sculpture on the Danube - Budapest During World War II, the Arrow Cross (Hungarian Fascists) would take Jews from the Budapest ghetto down to the Danube River and shoot them so that they would fall into the river. These shoes (bronze but in the style of that era) are lined up along the Embankment, not far from the location of the Hungarian Parliament.
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Hanna Lehrer, a Munich Jew, wears both her personal Jewish star around her neck and the mandated Yellow Star badge identifying her, isolating her, and alienating her from other Germans. Hanna was later sent to Riga, Latvia, where she was killed.