Since December 2023 the Dutch foundation Plant een Olijfboom has laid out thousands of donated children's shoes in Netherlands city squares while the names of…
When Soviet forces reached the Majdanek camp in July 1944, among the evidence found were vast quantities of confiscated shoes. They were preserved rather than dispersed.…
Film director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer set sixty pairs of 1940s-style shoes, cast in iron, into the Pest embankment of the Danube. It commemorates Jewish civil…
In August 2009 the artist Elina Chauvet placed thirty-three pairs of red-painted shoes in a public street, each representing a woman killed or disappeared. The work has…
On 13 March 2018 the advocacy organisation Avaaz laid seven thousand pairs of children's shoes across the southeast lawn of the United States Capitol. Organisers said th…
According to the dated schedule published by Stichting Plant een Olijfboom, the first installation in the series was held on 20 December 2023 at the Binnenrotte market s…
On 13 January 2024, Dam Square was covered with ten thousand pairs of children's shoes and names were read aloud. Dutch broadcasters covered the installation. The square…
Around fourteen thousand shoes were laid out on Vredenburgplein. Reporting describes a further pair being added every ten minutes while names were read, so the installat…
The organisers describe the Dam Square event of 12 April 2026 as their largest, with more than twenty thousand pairs of children's shoes, and published a named list of t…
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