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/news-events/upcoming-workshops/

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.

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
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.

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.

The Secret Life of Words

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.

A Film Unfinished

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.

The Pianist

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.

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

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)

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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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.