OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION
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Mission Statement
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.
About This Cause
OJMCHE In June 2017 Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education opened the doors of our 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. CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION When State Senator Rob Wagner began his initiative to mandate Holocaust education throughout Oregon's schools, he turned to OJMCHE to draft the language of the bill and work with him on its passage. Executive Director Judy Margles and Education Director Amanda Coven not only teamed with the Senator on the bill's language but also provided the guidance that expanded the bill's mandate to include education examining Oregon's challenging history of discrimination. Ultimately, the bill passed in June 2019. The Museum's Education Center has used this requirement as a springboard to partner with school districts throughout the state and even across the country to develop curriculum and classes and to provide teachers with the professional development they need to address the knotty issues of discrimination. This includes helping students identify their own discriminatory feelings, both conscious and unconscious, and dealing with verbal and physical violence that are based on such feelings. Finally, in response to the challenges of Covid-19 lockdown the Education Center staff has created virtual classes and professional development sessions. At the same time Museum staff created virtual tours of our signature exhibits and the Holocaust Memorial (see below). In so doing, OJMCHE is now recognized as a leading innovator in its field. OREGON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL 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.