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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shoes on the Bank of the Danube</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a sunny day in Budapest<br>The Danube Promenade offers a serene stroll. <br>The Royal Palace perched on Castle Hill<br>Greets you under an azure sky <br>And the mountains of Buda wave brightly<br>Their wooded hands across the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But along your peaceful walk listen<br>To the quiet murmur of the Danube, <br>Listen to the shifting waves that whisper <br>About bottomless grieves and sorrows.<br>The river drifts irremovable memories, <br>On the flowing waters float <br>Myriad sad stories. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not far from the Parliament building <br>And the Academy of Sciences<br>Sculpted shoes cast in iron<br>Line the left bank of the Danube; <br>Between Roosevelt Square and Kossuth Square: <br>Sixty period-exact footwear, <br>In the style of the 1940s, conceived<br>And created by the sculptor Gyula Pauer <br>And the poet Janos Can Togay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Attached to the top of the stone embankment, <br>The shoes symbolize real shoes of real people <br>Who lost their lives here.<br>They commemorate thousands of persecuted<br>Men, women and children, <br>Mostly Jews, who were murdered<br>By Nazi thugs in the terrible days <br>Of the Hungarian Arrow Cross terror <br>Between October 1944 and February 1945.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the Soviet Red Army had encircled<br>Budapest and its units were already fighting <br>In the suburbs of the capital, Arrow Cross<br>Militiamen rounded up Jews in groups of fifty<br>To sixty and led them to the bridges linking<br>Pest with Buda. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they reached the river bank<br>The executioners told their frightened victims<br>To remove their shoes and put all their jewellery, <br>Watches, money and other valuables inside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then they shot them into a freezing death.<br>Drift ice floated on the winter Danube, <br>The water turned red from the blood of the victims<br>As the river carried away their bodies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a serene walk along the Danube <br>Listen to the quiet murmur of the river.<br>Listen to the shifting waves that whisper <br>About bottomless grieves and sorrows. <br>The river drifts irremovable memories, <br>On the flowing waters float myriad sad stories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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The Danube Promenade offers a serene stroll. 
The Royal Palace perched on Castle Hill
Greets you under an azure sky 
And the mountains of Buda wave brightly
Their wooded hands across the river.

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