Memorial to the Missing

Just south of the Parliament building, on the banks of the Danube is the most moving and poignant memorial to those who were murdered by the Fascist regimes that controlled Hungary before and during WWII. The insight from the artist, to use shoes and boots of all sorts of shapes, styles and sizes to make the point of how people were either shot or drowned in the Danube so their bodies could never be recovered, is outstanding. The majority of the victims were Jews who were marched from the Ghetto near Deak Ferenc ter, down to the river and then murdered - many of the people who were despatched in this fashion had previously been held and tortured in the cells at 60 Andrassy Ut, which is now the aptly named House of Terror museum and memorial