Tripatini contributors Wayne and Judy Bayliff write:

"We decided to take a stroll along the Danube to photograph the Parliament building. Along the way we encountered a small group of people pondering over some small items lining the concrete bulkhead of the river.

The objects of the group’s interest were shoes. Actually, sixty pairs of old worn shoes, all sculpted in cast iron. Men’s, women’s, and children’s shoes from the 1940s, perfect in every detail.

At first we were taken aback by the oddity of the scene and the unusual sculptures. There were no conspicuously visible signs describing what we were looking at, until we noticed this small metal marker embedded in the cement: ´To the Memory of Victims Shot Into the Danube by Arrow Cross Militiamen in 1944-45.´

So this was a memorial, but who were the victims and who were the Arrow Cross militiamen? We didn’t know, so we did some research..."

Read more in their post Shoes and Ghosts Along the Danube in Budapest.