MOC7 Day 25 Photo As BG EllenR

This is an incredibly poignant memorial and your photo centric page does it justice.

This is an intriguing photo. Is there a story about the shoes?

@flowersgal There is a story about the shoes but is a very sad story.
This is what Wikipedia said;
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary, to honour the Jews who were killed during World War II. 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.

@ellenruberg. Thanks. I thought it might be something like that. I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC where there is a display of a roomful of shoes taken from those on their way to the gas chambers. It made me cry and I felt some of the same sorrow when I saw your photo.

WOW! I never knew this memorial existed... super cool layout and awesome way to honor their memory. Thanks for playing along with the challenge.

I nearly cried when I saw your layout in the gallery. I love that you used this photo for this particular challenge so it stands out, but also included the smaller photos on the edge help tell more of the story. It's a beautiful angle of the memorial.

This page is hauntingly beautiful. Hearing the rest of the story makes my heart ache at the atrocities that happened.

Thank you all for your sweet comments!