About Women of the Shoah
What We Do
Organize and catalyze community, business leaders, and Holocaust survivors and their families to build public Monuments honoring the spirit of humanity in the women and children of the Holocaust.
Create public art that provides for social engagement and encourages reflection, understanding and compassion in our diverse communities.
Educate, inform, and transform the viewers perspective on the Holocaust, antisemitism, racism and all genocide of women and children.
How We Do It
An on-site tour of the Holocaust Memorial Monument “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots.”
High school and middle school curriculum approved by the North Carolina Holocaust Council.
The full-length film “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots”
Placemaking programs on site at the monument.
Holocaust Education
The Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act was passed in 2021 as part of the North Carolina State Budget. The act calls the education of the Holocaust essential, defines antisemitism, states as fact the murder of six million Jews, homosexuals, socialists, and others, and condemns Holocaust denial.
Moreover, it sets a guideline to develop a public classroom curriculum that teaches about the Holocaust. This Monument will be used by teachers throughout the state of North Carolina as a vital tool to develop that curriculum and will lead to a deeper personal understanding of the Holocaust and its effects on the millions of women and children of the Shoah. The Monument also will play a vital role in fulfilling the mandates of the Never Again Education Act—passed by Congress to require Holocaust education throughout the country.
The Monument’s self-guided on-site educational tour are powered by QR code technology and inform visitors about the Holocaust, the specific incident captured by the photo of the mass murder that inspired the monument, and the story of women and children of the Shoah and their unique experiences. It features stories by and about people with connections to Greensboro that endured the Holocaust and have told their stories for all to hear.
The Monument serves as a vehicle for educational enlightenment in Greensboro and for the region for generations to come.
Monument Artist
Victoria Milstein
Founder of Women of the Shoah
Originally from New York, Victoria Milstein has lived and traveled around the world and now resides in Greensboro, NC. Victoria studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and The Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Her portraits hang in private and public collections globally. Victoria’s practice includes socially engaged public art and programming along with sculpture and painting. In 2021 she was featured in “Pieces of Now”, the award- winning exhibit at the Greensboro History Museum documenting her community’s response to the social justice protests in 2020.
Her sculpture, “She Wouldn’t Take off Her Boots,” was erected in Greensboro’s LeBauer Park in April of 2023. Victoria is the co-founder of Women of the Shoah, the non-profit associated with the project which will sponsor art and educational programs as part of the North Carolina Holocaust curriculum for public schools. She is the Executive Producer of “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots,” a documentary on the project that aired nationally in early 2024. Victoria currently serves on numerous community boards and organizations, including the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, and the Visitors Board of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She also serves as a Commissioner for the Arts for the City of Greensboro.
Victoria was a 2018 TedX Greensboro Speaker and operates VCM Art Studio, a place of mentoring and fellowship, with model drawings, workshops and community events for all demographics.
