Photo: Les Aigner, Rama Yousef and Rudwan Dawod share their stories as part of “To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives.” Photo courtesy OJMCHE. The exhibition “To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives” is a partnership between the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and The Immigrant Story, in collaboration with Jim Lommasson and…
Photo: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education building is in a neighborhood of concern. Four organizations, including the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, based in Portland’s Old Town Chinatown sent a letter to city and Multnomah County officials Wednesday, expressing their concerns about the “rapidly deteriorating conditions” in…
Photo: Textile artist Bonnie Meltzer The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education’s exhibition “Mending the Social Fabric” by textile artist Bonnie Meltzer has at its core a parachute with a 314-foot circumference that is encircled by 75 handkerchiefs embroidered with text that amplifies the embedded themes. Mounted behind the parachute are textiles…
The Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Southwest Portland’s Washington Park was marked with graffiti. The Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland has been defaced by anti-semitic graffiti. The vandalism, which included spray-painted swastikas and other neo-Nazi symbolism, and the number “1488” — code in neo-Nazi circles for the so-called “14 words,” a racist maxim – and…
Photo: Nancy Green Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Director Judy Margles announced a new fund to support Holocaust education throughout the state of Oregon, with a special emphasis on rural areas of the state. The Nancy Green Memorial Teacher Training Fund in Honor of Regina & Sidney Atlas has been established with…
Photo: Left, Augusta and Arnold Newman in 2000 (photo by Mary Ellen Mark) and in 1949. The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, OJMCHE, announces the creation of a fund to support on-going photography exhibitions through a gift from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation. The gift of $250,000 will create the Arnold and…
Photo: Special thanks to Orly, Zoe, Woody, Milton, Riddle, Lucy, Hanna and Homer for their perseverance and love as we navigate these tough times. Visitors to the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education can now view exhibits safely without coming inside. On view in OJMCHE’s north windows is an exhibit by Portland sculptor Mel Katz…
Photo: Michael Berenbaum, left and Steven M. Wasserstrom will lead a discussion on anti-Semitism amid the challenges we face today in the first event sponsored by the three museums together. While we all have been finding our “new normal” working in solitude, museum directors at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Jewish History Museum…
The Sala Kryszek Art & Writing Competition for middle and high school students encourages youth to evaluate history, foster an awareness of the Holocaust, and broaden their minds in the areas of art, history, civics, sociology and literature. Each year the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education sponsors the art and writing contest…
Photo: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Jewish Voices, Readings by Oregon Jewish Writers and Poets will be held on Nov. 19 at 7:30 pm at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education at 724 NW Davis Street in Portland. Ticket are $8 for members and $10 for the general…
