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The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005 in Budapest, Hungary. Along the road Id. Antall Jozef rkp, which is near the Hungarian Parliament Building on the bank of the Danube River. The nearest metro station is Kossuth Lajos ter M, with a couple of minutes walk. Sixty pairs of men's, woman's and children's old-fashioned cast iron shoes, the type people wore in the 1940s are left on the Danube embankment is home to one of Budapest's most famous Holocaust memorials. The rounded-up Jews were often lined up on the banks of the Danube and shot into the winter icy river in 1944-1945. They pass down an order to remove their shoes, which were considered to be of great value in the wartime.