GREENSBORO, N.C. — 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.
The Women of Shoah released the following statement regarding the incident:
The fact that antisemitism has reached our city is not new, but the desecration of a Holocaust monument in our central downtown park is beyond what most in the Jewish community here could have expected. It is especially horrifying to those Holocaust survivors and their families here in town, and to all of us in the Jewish community and in the greater Greensboro community that seek to honor the memory of those who perished or endured the Shoah. We will continue to reach out to our political, civil, and religious leadership to ask for support at this troubled time and to increase awareness of antisemitism's scope and effect.
WFMY News 2 crews reached out to police for pictures of the vandalism and they did not have any to share.
This investigation is ongoing.
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