HOLOCAUST

Portland has some living survivors of the Holocaust.  Some of them belong to an organization called
Next Generation Group, which includes second, third and fourth generation descendants of
Holocaust victims and survivors.  https://nextgenerationsgroup.wordpress.com/

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland includes
information about the Holocaust.  https://www.ojmche.org/
The museum opened in 2009.  In 2014, the museum merged with the Oregon Holocaust
Resource Center. 
The Jewish Federation website describes the mission of the museum and its Holocaust component:
Promote the responsible teaching of the Holocaust through education programs and exhibits,
as well as the opportunity to stimulate dialogue and action that teaches new generations the
need to uphold democratic values, prevent genocide and foster human dignity.  OJMCHE is
dedicated to communicating the lessons of the Holocaust to teachers, students and the general
public in Oregon and SW Washington.  This is in fulfillment of the legacy left by victims to
survivors.  https://www.jewishportland.org/community-directory/oregon-jewish-museum

After ten years of planning and negotiating, the Oregon Holocaust Memorial was completed
in 2004 in Washington Park, Portland.  It is a quiet, wooded area of the park, and is maintained by
the City of Portland.  https://www.portland.gov/parks/oregon-holocaust-memorial

The Oregon Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004.  The memorial features
a stone bench adorned with wrought-iron gating, screened from the street by rhododendron
bushes.  The bench sits behind a circular, cobblestone area, which simulates a town square.  During
the Holocaust, many Jewish families were gathered in town squares before being loaded onto
trains and taken to concentration camps.  The square contains scattered bronzes of shoes,
glasses, a suitcase, and other items to represent everyday objects that were left behind.  A
European-style, cobblestone walkway with inlaid granite bars simulates railroad tracks, and leads
to a wall of history panels-- giant, stone placards that offer a brief history of the Holocaust and
quotes from Holocaust survivors.  At the end of the wall is the soil vault panel.  Buried below
the panel are interred soil and ash from six killing-center camps of the Holocaust- Chelmo,
Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.  The back of the wall is engraved
with the names of people who died in the camps, followed by the names of their surviving
relatives in Oregon and SW Washington.

Source:

Holocaust Memorial website