Women of the Shoah

04/26/2023

Another great video about the monument!

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — There are some parts of history that are very difficult for most people to truly understand. The Holocaust is one of them. Artist Victoria Milstein is trying to…

04/24/2023

Thanks for spreading the word! Go out and see the monument in Lebauer Park this week!

The memorial monument is located in LeBauer Park and was inspired by the Liepāja massacre in 1941.

04/23/2023

Thank you to Allen Johnson for the kind words about the monument in this column for the Greensboro News and Record!

So many thoughts, so little time and space ...

04/22/2023

Thank you to everyone who came to the unveiling of North Carolina’s first women’s holocaust memorial monument! Go see it in Lebaur Park this weekend and never forget!

04/19/2023

Thanks to WXII Greensboro for the excellent coverage of the unveiling yesterday!

The statue titled "She wouldn't take off her boots" is based on a photo of a Jewish woman who refused to take off her boots before N***s killed her.

04/17/2023

04/17/2023

Please join us on Tuesday, April 18th at 5:00pm for the dedication of North Carolina’s first Monument and Memorial to the women and children of the Holocaust. “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots,” will be unveiled in Carolyn’s Garden in LeBauer Park on Yom Ha Shoah, Holocaust Memorial Day.

Sculpted by Greensboro artist, Victoria Milstein, the bronze sculpture is inspired by a photo of four Jewish women and a child taken moments before they were murdered as part of a mass ex*****on of Jews conducted by N***s in Liepaja, Latvia in December of 1941. It will honor the strength and resilience of these and all women and bear witness to their lives in hopes of a better future.

Designed as an interactive work of art, the sculpted figures of the women will face a camera which will enable the visitor to become a witness to the atrocity and at the same time feel the women’s humanity — the opposite of what the photographer intended to document.

The dedication of the Monument and Memorial site will introduce the community to this visionary gathering and learning place while honoring the strength and resilience of all women.

The piece is named in honor of two brave mothers, Eva Weiner and Sofia Guralnik, who saved their children _ Greensboro residents Shelly Weiner and Raya Kizhnerman - by hiding them in N**i-occupied Poland for two years.

The Monument is funded through public and private donations and the project appreciates the support of the state of North Carolina, the City of Greensboro and the North Carolina Holocaust Commission, among many other.

The Monument Memorial will serve as a resource and a tool to carry out North Carolina’s Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act, which requires the State Board of Education to include instruction of the Holocaust and genocide.

For more information about the tremendous efforts made to create this work of art, visit Women of the Shoah at www.womenoftheshoah.org.

04/17/2023

Thank you YES! Weekly for the coverage of the monument. Don't miss the unveiling on Tuesday, April 18 at 5 p.m. in Lebaur Park!

The four adult Jewish women face the N**i camera, their arms linked. They know they are going to be murdered. The young girl huddled against her mother possibly does not.

04/12/2023

Join us for the unveiling and dedication of North Carolina's first Women's Holocaust Memorial Monument on April 18 in Lebaur Park in Greensboro.

03/28/2022

North Carolina’s first Women’s Holocaust memorial monument, "She Wouldn't Take Off Her Boots" by artist Victoria Milstein will honor the strength and resilience of all women. The News & Record recently spoke to Victoria about the progress and meaning of the monument. Visit womenoftheshoahjp.org for more information.

Victoria Carlin Milstein sculpts "She Wouldn't Take Off Her Boots" as a memorial monument, an enduring witness to women and children who have been victims of genocide. "I knew that