This week's entry for the Tuesday and Wednesday edition of Wordless Wednesday is not my own image but it is too powerful to pass. What may look like a piece of whimsy is anything but. It is a memorial to jews murdered by Hungarian fascists (the Arrow Cross) during WWII. the victims were forced to take their shoes off before being executed and their bodies dumped in the Danube.
My goodness. This is powerful, indeed. Thanks, Jams. To think the shoes were more valued than life itself. How brutal.
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Yes, it´very impressing.
ReplyDeleteWow, amazing to think think such a thing could have happened. Thank you for sharing this!!!
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Tiany
It always surprises me what people will do to each other.
ReplyDeleteThat photo is heartbreaking....Thanks for sharing!
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Oh my that is powerful. It is amazing what we humans are capable of both for evil and for good.
ReplyDeleteA photo that is so powerful and heart-wrenching. Man's inhumanity to man is always so pathetic and hard to swallow....
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jams, this is so very impressive! I'm going to send your link to some of my friends...they will really appreciate it.
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Very moving......I am now wordless...
ReplyDeleteI agree with sandy, that's brutal. Thanks for sharing. Happy WW!
ReplyDeletewow, very powerful. My grandmother was a victim of the Holocaust. Thank you for sharing that today.
ReplyDeleteOh wow....when I first looked at the picture, I was wondering what all the shoes were for, but then I read what you wrote. Very great post! So many inhumane things were done then.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how the picture changes once the meaning is understood. I was thinking up all sorts of smart remarks while the rest of your page loaded, but as soon as I could scroll down to read what you'd written, the picture just changed. How horrible we humans can be to each other.
ReplyDeleteVery impressing...
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredibly powerful statement!
ReplyDeleteOh, that is incredibly powerful. What a moving sight.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
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Gosh! This is a heart-wrenching picture. There is this scary inhumane side of people amongst us.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of that thanks for sharing! Good WW to you!
ReplyDeleteOh, that makes me want to cry. I can't fathom what those poor people went through. What a picture.
ReplyDeleteAmazing, it looks so peaceful there too.
ReplyDeleteWow, that saddens me deeply. What a shot.
ReplyDeleteOh no. That is one awful story of the Holocaust that I have not heard before. I am glad you posted this tribute.
ReplyDeletewow! amazing pictures!!!
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Wow..very moving. Great shot. Happy WW.
ReplyDeleteGreat WW Photo! Thank you for providing a historical perspective that I would not have otherwise known...
ReplyDeleteMy WW post featured actor killed off this week on The Unit television show. Don't tell anyone, but, I cried at the end (sigh).
peace, Villager
sad part of world history ...
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wonderful shot!
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Very moving.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very poignant picture. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is certainly powerful!
ReplyDeleteOh.. that's sad. Thanks for sharing the history of the shot. Happy WW!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting shot!
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Thanks everyone. I will try and get round to see your entries soon.
ReplyDeleteGreat image and I learned something I didn't know from your WW post. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI wondered why the shoes were there until I read your post, then I felt so incredibly sad for man's inhumanity to his fellow man.
ReplyDeleteBefore I saw your explanation I wondered if it was a reminder of those who may have taken their own lives in the river. The photo is very eloquent because it immediately shows the absence of people. I'm so glad you shared this, Jams.
ReplyDeleteThat is a powerful picture...and makes me grateful for the freedom we have today!
ReplyDeleteJams, that is a fascinating and harrowing photo.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jams. That is a powerful tribute.
ReplyDeleteWow. Thanks for sharing that picture
ReplyDeleteI did some more reading on the net on this one, really fascinating. thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteWow! That's very powerful!
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Such an emotive image. The brutality of the Nazis never fails to horrify me.
ReplyDeleteHaunting and powerful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder - freedom is NOT free.
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Thanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is very powerful. And a reminder of something that should never be forgotten.
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Wow, what an image. Such a shame we need reminders like this.
ReplyDeleteHow utterly awful and evil. There is just too much killing. Over religion, over differences, over just about anything. Have a great WW. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this meaningful entry.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo. I have a poem about shoes I'll put on my blog. It was written by one of my writing tutors.
ReplyDeleteAs I sit here in between going from one job to another on a Thanksgiving holiday, I suddenly feel a lot more blessed to have the freedom to work and worship as I please without threat of execution.
ReplyDeleteTHanks everyone,
ReplyDeleteEWBL that is the thing. THere is a lot to criticise about the USA, the same goes for the UK. However, we are both bloody lucky to have been born where we were.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Promenade
ReplyDeleteWill live forever in our memory.
ReplyDeleteJewish-Hungarian family stood on the evening of 8 January 1945 for the Danube in Budapest, with the faces to water. Each moment can shots slam. The man with the leather coat had appeared with a special brigade of the hungarian police prevented he assassinating 154 jews. Who wore a leather coat like many state security detectives, who during the war helped to save hundreds of Jewish lives? A wonder: five surviving witnesses found 60 years later. Who was the man in the leather coat? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UB36KG