Jewish Women on the Map - Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Location
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Route 1
3904
Kittery, ME
United States
A bas-relief bronze and granite memorial to the sailors and soldiers from Maine who died in World War I. Commissioned by the state, it depicted a woman fiercely protecting her child. The sculptor was Bashka Paeff, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, whose family had emigrated from Russia to escape the pogroms and settled in Boston.
Type:
Official marker (memorial, statue, gravestone, plaque, etc.)
Rights:
JWA use only on jwa.org




Discuss
Do you have updates to this article? Links to online resources of interest? Are there other areas for this article that you feel should be mentioned, or mentioned in more detail? Let us know.
Post new comment