Next stop was the moving memorial the ‘Shoes on the Danube.’ This is a monument that remembers the hundreds of Jewish people who were killed by being shot along the banks of the River. It got to a point in the war where they stopped sending some to concentration camps because it was cheaper and easier to just kill them here. They were told to remove the shoes and winter coats and they were shot.

There were men’s and women’s shoes as well as children’s. Impossible to even think about.