…Continued from Coming of the White Man.
Oregon Holocaust Memorial on February 15, 2010
The Oregon Holocaust Memorial was conceived in 1994 and was dedicated on August 29, 2004. The memorial consists of a town square with lamp post in honor of those who survived at one end, and a curved basalt block memorial wall at the other.
Oregon Holocaust Memorial on February 15, 2010
Scattered about the town square are small sculptures representing items that belonged to Holocaust victims, including a doll, book, candelabra, suitcase, shoe and violin.
Oregon Holocaust Memorial on February 15, 2010
The front of the wall displays Holocaust-related quotations and the back of the wall list the names of Holocaust victims and their surviving relatives in the Pacific Northwest. On the left end of the wall is a history of the Holocaust. On the right is a rock covering a soil vault containing soil and ash from the Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps.
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