Shoes of the Holocaust (40cm x 120cm - Oil on Canvas - Sep 2005)



This is a painting of a sculpture on the Danube river banks in front of the Parliament building in Budapest. There are 30 pairs of shoes of normal size which symbolize the murder of Hungarian Jews shot during WWII. They were forced to undress and their bodies dropped into the river. It’s a very powerful image, which is why I used this angle where the shoes seem huge.