Reading of the Names

Here in Portland – as in Jewish communities around the world – we gather to read the names of the men, women, and children murdered by Nazi Germany and its European collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The list comprises names archived at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust remembrance center in Jerusalem.Throughout Holocaust Remembrance Day members of the community – dignitaries, clergy, and others – will read these names out loud in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square.