Oregon Holocaust Memorial

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Oregon Holocaust Memorial
Oregon
Pdx washpark holocaustmemorial suitcase.jpeg
Everyday items like this suitcase symbolize life interrupted
For victims of the Holocaust
UnveiledAugust 29, 2004
Locationnear 
Portland, Oregon

The Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. [1] Located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park, the memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004. Owned by the American Jewish Committee and constructed by Atlas Landscape Architecture and the Walsh Construction Company, the idea for a memorial was proposed in 1994 by Alice Kern and a local group of Holocaust survivors that met through the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center. [2] [3] [4] According to Fodor's, the memorial is open daily from dawn to dusk and admission is free of charge. [5]

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Design

The memorial features a stone bench with wrought iron gating around a cobblestone circle. Scattered bronzes of common objects such as shoes, glasses, and a suitcase represent items left behind by those persecuted during the Holocaust. A cobblestone walkway, with granite bars simulating railroad tracks, leads to a wall containing a history of the Holocaust as well as quotes from survivors. [1] [6] The memorial also contains a "soil vault panel", which covers soil and ash from six extermination camps of the Holocaust (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Sobibor) brought back by local residents. [3] [7] Engraved on the back of the wall are the names of people who died in the camps, as well as the names of their surviving relatives in Oregon and Southwest Washington. [1] [8] Author and designer John Laursen created the lettering for the memorial. [9] Other design team members included artists Tad Savinar and Paul Sutinen, landscape architects John Warner, Marianne Zarkin and Marlene Salon, and historian Marshall Lee. [10]

Construction

The total estimated cost of construction was $800,000, funded by grants and private donations. [11] The primary contractor for the project was Oregon's Walsh Construction Company. Minnesota-based Coldspring Granite Company provided granite for the memorial. [11]

History

The memorial was vandalized in 2021. [12]

See also

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  2. ↑ "Oregon Holocaust Memorial". Walsh Construction Company. Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
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  12. ↑ "Nazi swastikas scrawled across Oregon Holocaust Memorial in SW Portland". The Oregonian. 2021-05-03. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-14.

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