Greensboro police arrested someone accused of vandalizing North Carolina’s first and only women’s Holocaust memorial statue.
Officers charged Nile Harvey with Misdemeanor Injury to Real Property and Ethnic Intimidation.
A swastika was drawn on the statue in Downtown Greensboro on Friday, police say.
Greensboro police are investigating a vandalism where a Jewish memorial sits in LeBauer Park on Davie Street.
The monument entitled “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots” was inspired by the Liepāja massacre in 1941. On Dec. 15, 1941 thousands of Jewish women and children were taken to a women’s prison in Liepāja, Latvia, forced to strip to their undergarments, and then shot in groups of ten. This statue is a depiction of a woman who refused to take off her boots.
