After doing a bit of research on public sculptures and they’re positioning I came across this piece of art called, ‘The shoes on the Danube Bank.’ Something about it really grabbed my attention, maybe how upsetting it is that this is a part of our history or the fact so many lives were taken from them.

The shoes are a memorial and a monument to the Hungarian Jews who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were shot on the banks of the Danube River by the members of the Arrow Cross Party.

Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [hu] to honour the Jews who were massacred by Fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Bank