A number of iron shoes have been weathered by years.

People often see many flowers and candles near their shoes.

There are even plastic photos tied to shoes with ribbons.

Ribbons fluttered in the Danube wind,

As if sobbing about that tragic history.

The shoes on the Danube are monuments,

To commemorate the Second World War,

He was killed by the fascist Arrow Crusader police in Budapest.

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There are 3,500 innocent people,

Driven to this section of the river by the fascist arrow crusader police,

Escorted here and asked to take off their shoes,

Then they were shot.

Bodies fell into the river one after another,

As the river flows downstream,

Blood stained the Danube.

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In this way, as many as 20 thousand innocent people were executed by this river.

Just a month later,

1February, 945, the Soviet Union liberated Budapest.

In memory of these victims,

Sculptor Jiu Loppol created 60 pairs of iron shoes in proportion to real shoes.

Standing by the river forever,

They are kept in the same state as when they were just taken off,

Let people truly feel the fear and despair of innocent people.

Powerful and indescribable sadness,

Like the cold wind on the Danube, it penetrates the bone marrow.

On the stone bench behind the shoes,

There is a passage recorded in Hungarian, English and Hebrew:

"To commemorate the period from 1944 to 1945,

The victim who was shot into the Danube by the Arrow Crusader police.

Erected in April, 2005 16 ".

There is a touching history behind the iron shoes.

It's about Schindler in Sweden-

The story of diplomat Lalauer Vallenborg.

Vallenborg was born surrounded by tragedy.

His father,

A handsome Swedish naval officer,

Former Swedish ambassador to Japan.

When he was 23 years old,

Three months before my son was born,

Unfortunately passed away.

Many years later,

Vallenborg's half-sister,

Nina Laggren said:

"Suddenly, in that once happy house,

There are two widows and this baby boy.

Two women who lost their loved ones put all their love,

Are focused on this child, "

Nina Laggren said,

Vallenborg "gave and received so much love,

Grow into an unusually generous,

A caring and compassionate person. "

Vallenborg served nine months of military service in Sweden after graduating from high school.

Sent to Paris for a year.

Precious photos of Vallenborg when he was young.

Then he went to the University of Michigan,

It took three and a half years to complete the five-year course of the School of Architecture.

He and his classmates,

Gerald Ford, the future president,

1935 graduated.

President Ford

Vallenborg's first position,

This is a South African company in Sweden.

1936,

His grandfather was in ABN Amru, Haifa, Palestine,

A position was arranged for him.

There,

Vallenborg began to be satisfied,

Young Jews were forced to flee Nazi persecution in Germany.

Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz.

1939,

He works with Raul, a Jewish refugee from Hungary.

Raul is the owner of a food trading company in China and Europe.

Eight months later,

Vallenborg and Raul have become very good partners.

Through them,

Vallenborg began to contact the Hungarian Jewish community.

Brzezinka concentration camp

In America,

At the request of President Roosevelt,

A Committee for War Refugees was established.

1after the Nazi occupation of Hungary in June 1944,

WRB's huge funds,

How to use it to ensure the safety of 750,000 Hungarian Jews has become a top priority.

1944, 16 In April, Hungarian Jews were isolated and the massacre began.

Jewish women cried in horror before being shot.

WRB came to neutral Sweden,

Actively operate the relevant work of the embassy in Budapest,

They must find someone who agrees to go to Hungary.

This person will work with the support of the Swedish government.

It is protected by Swedish diplomatic passport and funded by WRB.

The Swedish government will authorize this person to issue passports to as many Jews as possible.

Subsequently, Vallenborg was elected as the representative of WRB.

1July 9, 944,

Vallenborg, aged 3/kloc-0, arrived at the Swedish Embassy in Budapest.

He only brought a backpack and a small pistol.

When Vallenborg arrived in Hungary,

437,000 Jews living outside Budapest were deported.

There are still several Jewish communities in Hungary, including the capital with about 230,000 people.

The Jewish community in Hungary

Vallenborg's first job was to redesign the Swedish passport.

He knew that the Nazis and their Hungarian opponents,

Usually people with low education,

They are easily moved by a big official document,

So Vallenborg redesigned "Schutzpass", as shown below:

He used the blue and yellow of the Swedish flag,

Decorate the document with the logo of Swedish Triple Crown.

As it turns out,

This simple evaluation proved to be effective!

May 20 12 10,

Sweden and Hungary jointly issue "Vallenborg100th Anniversary" stamps.

The man in the stamp is Vallenborg.

July 1944 to February 12,

During his tenure as Sweden's special envoy to Hungary,

Issue passports to Jews on the grounds of construction work,

Thereby saving the lives of thousands of Jews.

The Swedish Embassy in Budapest has a special department.

Among them, Vallenborg is the head.

The staff here mainly work with Jewish volunteers.

At first, there were only 250 workers,

Later, about 400 people worked 24 hours a day.

Usually they need to complete about 2000 Shu Ci passes in one night.

And deliver it before six o'clock.

Vallenborg seems to sleep only an hour or two every night.

He always pays attention to every link.

After the war,

About 50 thousand Jews living in foreign "protected houses" in international Jewish settlements survived.

Among them, about 25,000 people are directly protected by Vallenborg.

When Soviet troops entered Budapest,

They found that there were nearly 70,000 Jews in the Jewish community.

Women and children.

Another 25,000 people live in protected houses,

And 25,000 Jews,

Found hiding in Christian families, monasteries, church basements and other protected places,

In general,

6.5438+0.2 million Jews in Budapest survived the "Holocaust Plan" and were not implemented.

1March 8, 945,

The Hungarian radio station controlled by the Soviet Union reported that,

Vallenborg was murdered on the way to Debrecen,

Probably the Hungarian crusaders,

Or a secret agent of the Gestapo.

April 1945,

The American ambassador to Moscow was ordered to contact the Swedish ambassador,

Willing to provide any necessary assistance to help determine Vallenborg's life and death.

Swedish Ambassador Sota blom told the Soviet head of state,

He thinks Vallenborg is dead,

Killed by the crusaders,

But the Soviet Union will still be asked to conduct this investigation.

Stalin promised to investigate himself,

Write Vallenborg's name on the memo.

1948,

Swedish people nominated Vallenborg for the Nobel Peace Prize 1948.

It took the world more than 50 years to really realize that,

The greatness of Raoul Wohlenberg:

A bystander can say "never again" in the holocaust;

When Vallenborg disappeared into the terror centralization of the Soviet Union,

Let's look at those people who are standing silently.

Vallenborg is not only a symbol of justice,

It is also a symbol of being treated unfairly.

A symbol of indifference.

Chairman of the European Union Tang Di Chinese Foundation

Vice President of European and American Chinese Artists Association

Deputy Secretary-General of International Museum Art Festival

Editing and finishing: Chen Yu

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