Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Oregon Holocaust Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, OR

…Continued from Coming of the White Man.

IMG_2334 Oregon Holocaust Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, Oregon on February 15, 2010
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.

IMG_2335 Oregon Holocaust Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, Oregon on February 15, 2010
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.

IMG_2290 Oregon Holocaust Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, Oregon on February 15, 2010
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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