The wait is over!
You voted, and our 2020 Referral Reward Yearly Winner is….
Here’s a rare commodity in today’s world… GOOD NEWS! We thank folks for their valuable business referrals by making donations to the non-profit groups they choose. At the end of the year our clients vote for one of these groups to receive a final $1000 gift. We’re pleased to tell you that this year’s voting is done, the tally’s look right, recounts have been completed, and no court cases are pending. We can now tell you with complete confidence that the winner of our 2020 Referral Reward Yearly Award is…
(from the OJMCHE website)-
 Discrimination and Resistance, an Oregon Primer (Core Exhibit) This anchor exhibit documents Oregon’s history of discrimination and chronicles the many ways individuals and groups have resisted and overcome discrimination through the same time period. The exhibition discusses core “tools of discrimination” as well as “tools of resistance” used to counter oppression and discrimination. |
The Oregon Holocaust Memorial situated in Portland’s Washington Park is free and open to the public from dawn until dark every day of the year and is ADA-accessible. The Memorial serves as a permanent reminder of the Holocaust, the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators from 1933 to 1945. By teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and visiting the Memorial, we pay homage to those who lost their lives during that period.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the legacy of the Jewish experience in Oregon, teaches the universal lessons of the Holocaust, and provides opportunities for intercultural conversation. OJMCHE challenges our visitors to resist indifference and discrimination and to envision a just and inclusive world.
 The Holocaust, an Oregon Perspective (Core Exhibit) This exhibition explores the solemn gravity of the Holocaust through the words, objects and photographs from OJMCHE’s Collection and local Holocaust survivors who later made their home in Oregon and Southwest Washington. |
From its humble start as a “museum without walls” OJMCHE has become a vital part of Portland’s cultural landscape. Within our permanent home, our exhibitions and programs celebrate and explore, in the broadest terms, Jewish contributions to world culture and ideas, issues of identity and the forces of prejudice.
In 2014 OJM merged with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, which was founded in 1984, taking on an expanded mission as the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE). This merger enriched the museum in countless ways: the education staff now includes a full-time Holocaust educator; as stewards of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland’s Washington Park we bring thousands of school children to both the Memorial and to the Museum; and we continue to be the only community repository for the Jewish experience in Oregon.
 Virtual Memorial Tour (Online Exhibit) The idea for the Oregon Holocaust Memorial was conceived in 1994 by a local group of Holocaust survivors. Their goal was to honor the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, and to educate people about the horrific consequences of hatred and discrimination. This self-paced and self-guided tour virtual tour makes it possible for anyone to visit the Oregon Holocaust Memorial from wherever they are located. As with an in-person tour of the Memorial, this virtual experience provides opportunity for remembrance and reflection.
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In June 2017 Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education opened the doors of its permanent home at 724 NW Davis Street, on the North Park Blocks in downtown Portland. The museum’s main gallery features rotating exhibitions of national and international stature. Three core exhibits anchor the museum: Discrimination and Resistance, An Oregon Primer, which identifies discrimination as a tool used to affect varied groups of people over the history of this region; The Holocaust, An Oregon Perspective, a history of the Holocaust that employs the stories of Oregon survivors; and Oregon Jewish Stories, an installation focused on the experience of the Jews of Oregon. The museum also features a robust series of public programming including films, lectures, musical events, and programs in support of exhibitions. In addition, OJMCHE has a museum shop, a café, and a children’s play area.
