Along the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, sits one of the most haunting memorials in Europe — the Shoes on the Danube Bank. It was created to honor the memory of the thousands of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust by members of the Arrow Cross Party in 1944 and 1945. Victims were ordered to remove their shoes before being lined up at the edge of the river and shot, their bodies falling into the water below. The shoes that remain — cast in iron — represent the men, women,