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2013 Awards Luncheon for Sala Kryszek Art & Writing Competition
Please join us as we congratulate the winners of this year’s 2013 Sala Kryszek Writing & Art Competition, Sunday, May 5, 2013 at Noon for lunch at the Multnomah Athletic Club. Tickets for the event are available through the office by calling 503-245-2733 or through pay pal. The cost of lunch is $20. Tickets can be purchased below:
Echoes & Reflections Holocaust Training-April 13, 2013, Vancouver WA
Echoes & Reflections Holocaust Training
Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 9am-noon
Vancouver, WA
Room 100, Bates Center for Educational Leadership 2921 Falk Rd., Vancouver, WA 98661 (Part of the complex for Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School and Parsley Center District Offices)
Each workshop participant will receive a complimentary copy of “Echoes and Reflections — A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust”. Ten multi-part lessons are provided with a companion DVD of over two hours of visual history testimony from 51 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Each lesson is supported with numerous primary source documents as well as poems, literature excerpts, diary entries, artwork, and maps. Includes materials that support differentiated instruction and promotes contemporary connections to cultural diversity, intolerance, and genocide. Appropriate for English, Social Studies or Art teachers who are teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, Night, WWII, and contemporary genocide issues.
Register here:http://www.ohrconline.org/
Noontime Film Series with OJM
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Oregon Holocaust Resource Center are working together to bring a noontime film series to the community that focus on themes of bearing witness, reconciliation, and redemption.
All films are free to the public and begin at 12:00pm at OJM and OHRC’s building at 1953 NW Kearney St.
April 3- Night and Fog:
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man’s violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again. 35 minutes with discussion following. Optional showing of In Her Own Words: Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman Interview (45 mins.)
April 10- Coexist:
The documentary film, Coexist, tells the stories of trauma survivors searching for ways to coexist with their loved ones’ murderers. As the Rwandan government forces citizens to consider reconciliation, we examine the varied paths survivors choose when forced to engage with people who perpetrated crimes during the genocide. In a world where innocent people are attacked or killed because of who they are, we challenge you: how can Rwandans experiences inform efforts to build peaceful coexistence, eliminate hate crimes, and prevent violence? 40 minutes + extra video footage.
April 17- Everything Is Illuminated:
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man – also named Jonathan Safran Foer – sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. 106 minutes.
Unto Every Person There Is A Name-Monday, April 8, 2013
“Unto Every Person There Is A Name”
Monday, April 8, 2013
Every year hundreds of Jewish communities around the world perpetuate the memory of the victims of the Holocaust through the program, Unto Every Person There is a Name, a public recitation of Holocaust victims’ names, ages and birthplaces on Yom HaShoah – the Day of Remembrance.
Once again, the Oregon Area Jewish Committee and the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center are sponsoring this special Yom HaShoah program. This year it will be held on Monday, April 8 at Pioneer Courthouse Square, downtown, from 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM. People from all walks of life will read from a list of names provided by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Research Center. The program’s opening ceremony will include poetry, prayers, and candle lighting. More than 6,000 names will be read during the course of the day.
Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration-Sunday, April 7, 2013
Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration
Sunday, April 7, 2013
The Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and Oregon Board of Rabbis invite you to:Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Remembrance Day
Memory as Resistance – 70 Years after the Warsaw Ghetto
Sunday, April 7th 4 PM
Rose Schnitzer Manor – Zidell Hall
This event is open to all adults and youth in middle school & high school. We encourage you to attend. Please bring with you a stone to place upon our memorial table.
The public is also invited to visit the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park in observance of the day. Docents will be available from 1:00-3:00 P.M. to guide interested visitors through the Memorial.
Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman-February 27, 2013 – April 24, 2013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Pictures of Resistance:
The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman
February 27, 2013 – April 24, 2013
The Oregon Jewish Museum
We are pleased to partner with the OJM on this exhibit.
The majority of European Jews during the Second World War had no idea that the Nazis were conducting a meticulous disinformation campaign to convince them that they were going to work camps instead of being exterminated. Yet between 20,000- 30,000 Jews escaped from Nazi ghettos and camps to form or join organized resistance groups. Known as partisans, their lives depended on their ability to remain unseen undocumented and unidentifiable. One such partisan, Faye Schulman, carried her camera. Schulman’s rare collection of images captured the camaraderie, horror and loss, bravery and triumph of the rag-tag, tough partisans – some Jewish, some not—who fought the Germans and their collaborators.
Faye Schulman is the only known Jewish partisan photographer who took pictures of Jewish partisan resistance. Born Faigel Lazebnik to a respected Jewish family in Lenin, Poland, she was introduced to photography at the age of ten by her older brother Moishe who ran the town’s only photography studio.
In 1941 Germany troops occupied eastern Poland. Jewish men were deported to labor camps and Jewish women and children were imprisoned in a ghetto. As the only remaining photographer in the area (her brother moved away before this time), Faye’s skills made her valuable to the Nazi’s and her life was spared when the rest of the ghetto’s 1,800 Jews were massacred.
Eventually escaping from the Germans, Faye joined a Russian partisan brigade in the forests along the Polish-Russian border. For more than two years, she documented the camaraderie, horror and loss, bravery and triumph of the partisans, through the artistry of her photography.
In Pictures of Resistance, Faye’s remarkable photographs and moving narratives make the images real, impressing upon the viewer the horror of war, the lessons of revenge, and resolution and the resilience of one woman’s spirit. The exhibit poses probing questions about the life of the only known Jewish woman partisan photographer. Why did Faye Schulman become a war documentarian at great risk to her life? How did she get photographic supplies, much less develop the film? How did she manage to survive as one of the few Jewish women among the Partisans?
Pictures of Resistance is a traveling exhibit produced by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, curated by Jill Vexler and made possible by Thomas and Johanna Baruch, the Epstein/Roth Foundation, the Purjes Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, the Holocaust Council of UJA Metro West, and Diane and Howard Wohl.
The mission of the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation is to develop and distribute educational materials about the Jewish partisans and their life lessons in order to bring an understanding of heroic resistance against tyranny to educational and cultural organizations. For more information please go to www.jewishpartisans.org.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Film Series- March 6-20th
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Film Series. March 6-20th
As part of our program to investigate and educate the public about genocide from an interdisciplinary perspective, the OHRC with the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at the Portland Center for Public Humanities is hosting a series of films related to the topic of genocide. These films approach their topic from a wide range of angles. The first film in our series deals with the traumatic aftermaths of a genocidal campaign (and the attempt to heal from it); the second thematizes the question of how genocide is represented — both by its perpetrators and by historians in the aftermath; while the third treats the question of survival. Each film will be followed by a discussion, led by a professor from Portland State University who teaches courses related to the study of genocide and the holocaust.
The series is free and open to the public. All screenings will take place at the OHRC- 1953 NW Kearney Street. It is co-sponsored by Judaic Studies and the English Department at Portland State University.
March 6th, 2013, 7pm
The Secret Life of Words, Isabel Croixet’s brilliant, laconic story about an attempt to build intimacy in the wake of unimaginable trauma. The film will be followed by a discussion with Professor Greg Goekjian.
March 13th, 2013, 7pm
A Film Unfinished, Yael Hersonki’s 2010 documentary that chronicles the filming of the Warsaw Ghetto. With commentary from both sides of the camera, the film offers a rare insight into life in the ghetto, as well as the complicated manipulations Nazis indulged in to produce their propaganda. The film will be followed by a discussion with Professor Natan Meir.
March 20th, 2013, 7pm
The Pianist, Roman Polanski’s film from 2001, which tells the true story of Wladislaw Szpilman (portrayed by Adrien Brody), a brilliant Jewish pianist who managed to escape the deportations to survive among the ruins of occupied Warsaw. The film will be followed by a discussion with Professor Marcia Klotz.
Benefit Performance- February 10, 2013
25 Questions For A Jewish Mother
Written by Emmy Award winning comic, Judy Gold with her partner Kate Moira Ryan, 25 Questions For A Jewish mother is based on more than 50 interviews with Jewish mothers across the United States, conducted over a five-year period. Oy!
“…fiercely funny, honest and moving…” The New York Times
Special Performance Benefiting
Oregon Holocaust Resource Center
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
2 pm
The Sanctuary @ Sandy Plaza
1785 Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR
1785 Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR
Patron Seats (reserved):$50.00
General Admission :$25.00
Student Admission with ID :$12.50
Make your reservation now by contacting the OHRC at info@ohrconline.org
or click here!
Limited Seating Available
Patron Tickets ($50 each)
General Admission ($25 Each)
Student Admission with ID ($12.50 Each
Salem Teacher Workshop- March 9, 2013
Teaching the Holocaust Workshop
Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 8am-4pm
West Salem High School
This workshop is designed for current and preservice teachers who are planning on incorporating the Holocaust into their curriculum. The workshop will cover the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) guidelines, historical context, model lessons, contemporary genocide and human rights crises, and how to incorporate the Holocaust into a literature or history based class.
Please register for the workshop using the form below. There is a non-refundable registration fee for ALL participants of $30 that must be paid in advance by check. Lunch is provided as well as materials and limited scholarships are available. Please contact us.
* Make checks payable to Salem-Keizer School District
* Write Holocaust Education Workshop on the note line *
Checks must be sent to: Office of Professional Development
Attn: Sheryle White
Salem-Keizer Public Schools
2450 Lancaster Dr. NE
Salem, Oregon 97305
You will receive a confirmation email once the check has been received. Graduate credit will be available through Willamette University for a fee of $65 payable the day of the training. Please let us know in the comment section below if you plan on registering and if you have any dietary concerns for lunch.
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This workshop is offered in partnership with:
Funds supporting the OHRC’s teacher training programs were provided in honor of Holocaust survivor SIME KAMINSKY MESHUL, and the memory of her family who perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau: mother, Bobel; father, Kopel; brothers: Shloime, Meishe, Yudel; and sister, Roseh.
Film screening of Across the Frontlines: Ending the Nuba Genocide
Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and the Never Again Coalition present: a film screening of Across the Frontlines: Ending the Nuba Genocide. Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 – 8:30pm 1953 NW Kearney, Portland, OR 97209 Run time: 48 minutes followed by a brief Q&A Over a year ago, the regime in Sudan led by Omar al-Bashir, unleashed a wave of violence on its own people in South Kordofan province. This is home to the Nuba Mountains. With crops destroyed, agriculture interrupted, and Bashir refusing to allow humanitarian aid in, hundreds of thousands of lives are threatened by war-related causes such as preventable disease and forced starvation. Operation Broken Silence, a Tennessee based non-profit, slipped across the frontlines into the Nuba Mountains a few months ago to document what is going on. This turned into the first large scale media project to document this war. Daily bombings, ground fighting, starvation and preventable disease are claiming lives right now. Come to the screening and find out the simple things that YOU can do to help put an end to this violence.
