Education
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.
Our Curriculum
Below you can find the curriculum plan developed by Victoria Carlin and Laurie Schaefer and approved by the NC Council on the Holocaust and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
Click each slide below to download the PDF with clickable links, or click here to download the full 11-page plan.
Lesson 1: Spiritual Resistance
This lesson is meant to help students understand the historical and cultural backgrounds of Leipaja, Lativa and the Einsatzgruppen killing action that took place there.
Lesson 2: Forgetting Is Dangerous
This lesson introduces students to the importance of Holocaust monuments and memorials and how artists design them to honor not only the memory of those who suffered, but also to communicate the lessons humanity should learn and apply to our world today.
Lesson 3: Witnessing Defiance
If you are close enough to Greensboro, NC to visit the memorial, this lesson will provide information about how to organize a field trip to take students to visit the memorial in Lebauer Park and the International Civil Rights Museum.
Lesson 4: Past In The Present
This final lesson in the series, students will create their own memorial using a photograph from the Holocaust as their inspiration.
Download the complete 11-page curriculum here.
Learn More about the Gizella Abramson Act which mandates Holocaust education in middle and high school in North Carolina.
Women of the Shoah Teacher Fellowship
The Women of the Shoah Teacher Fellowship provides comprehensive Holocaust education training to North Carolina middle and high school educators. We fully fund intensive professional development sessions where teachers learn our specialized curriculum that connects the monument's story to classroom instruction.
After implementing this curriculum with their students throughout the school year, each teacher brings their class to visit the monument. We fund these student visits, covering transportation and substitute teacher costs. Students experience guided tours with our trained docents, meet with the monument artist, and hear from local Holocaust survivors.
Our fellowship currently includes 90 teacher fellows from 40 counties across North Carolina, impacting thousands of students annually with transformative Holocaust education that combines history, art, and personal testimony.
Our Spring 2026 Fellowship applications will open in November, 2025. Please check back in then for the application.
Schedule A Tour
The memorial monument “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots” at LaBauer park is accesible to all park visitors everyday from 7am – 11pm. If you are interested in a guided tour of the monument with our knowledgable docents, click on the button below.