The beautiful picturesque Danube river separates Buda and Pest of Budapest. Each side just as beautiful as the other and each holds numerous attractions.
But on the Pest side, just a little way from Parliament stands the famous Shoe memorial.
Heartbreaking and haunting is this memorial, a sobering realization of some of the evil that took place during the second world war.
A gut wrenching story too painful to tell, but it must be told, so the story speaks loud through this memorial.
The memorial consist of 60 pairs of shoes along the river. The shoes are made of metal and set in the concrete on the Danube embankment.
It was set up in 2005 to tell the horrific story of the Hungarian Jewish victims that were lined up at the embankment then shot into the Danube River.
There are three cast iron memorial signs in Hungarian, English and Hebrew, that reads:
“To the memory of victims shot into the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944-45”
But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. “For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ “Then they will begin TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, ‘FALL ON US,’ AND TO THE HILLS, ‘COVER US. “For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Luke 23:28-31
The Portion of my Inheritance 
how very sad—-
Just heartbreaking! 😦