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Education
Education is the primary purpose of the Center. Our most valuable resource is our group of Speakers — those survivors, refugees, liberators and others whose lives were directly and irrevocably altered by the Holocaust — who speak directly to the students, teachers, and various other groups in Oregon and southwest Washington. Other educational programs, such as workshops, symposiums, and the Sala Kryszek Competitions create the bulk of the OHRC’s endeavors.
Educational Materials
OHRC makes available a wide variety of materials: books, journals, videos, DVDs, and activities to teachers, schools, and districts.
Memorial Tours
The OHRC offers guided tours of the Memorial. Our docents are able to accommodate groups of various sizes and often guide groups of students from Oregon and SW Washington schools. There is no charge for this service. To reserve a tour slot, you may call the office or Click Here for an Acrobat Reader form. If you prefer, Click Here for a MicroSoft Word form. These may be filled out and mailed, faxed, or emailed to the OHRC office. Please be sure to complete all the information on these forms, as that enables us to plan accordingly. We have created a map to the Memorial with directions for school buses with parking spots for the buses. Click Here for the map.
OHRC Education Committee
Meets monthly. Our current major project is completing Educational Trunks to be offered to middle and high school teachers for use in their classrooms, made possible by a generous grant from the Equity Foundation's
Portland 100 Fund. The completed trunks are Kindertransport, A Name on the Wall, and Rescuers. Each trunk features one or more stories from survivors who live in Oregon and Southwest Washington. We are currently working on four more trunks – Lodz Ghetto, Safe Haven – The Dominican Republic, and Auschwitz. We hope to have them all completed by the end of this school year.
Programs
The OHRC participates in annual commemorations of Kristallnacht and Yom Ha'Shoah. These two important events generate community involvement within Holocaust education and remembrance. These events are also designed to address the threats to civil rights, human rights, and human dignity posed by ignorance, hatred and prejudice. The Center sponsors commemorative activities over several days and at a variety of venues to bring these important messages to all of today’s generations.
Speakers’ Bureau
The Speakers Bureau provides a priceless resource for teachers and students. Speakers provide the memories and insights of their own experiences (as survivors, refugees, and liberators of the Holocaust) directly to students in the classroom and other venues. Click Here for more info. For a current schedule of Speaker talks, CLICK HERE.
Other Resources
OHRC provides Library Archives and links to related Web sites for further studies.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has some tremendous online resources, and the recent addition of the Holocaust Encyclopedia continues in this tradition. The interactive Encyclopedia includes hundreds of articles that cover topics like the Third Reich, refugees, ghettos, and the liberation of Nazi camps. Each entry contains hypertext links to other entries and relevant resources, including timelines, photo galleries, and primary source documents. Visitors can use the “Browse Articles” to get started, and they should also note that the articles are available in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and six other languages.
In the “Additional Resources” section, visitors will find a link to “The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students” and a complete “A-Z” list of all the articles. Click Here for the Library Archives.
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Oregon Holocaust Resource Center • PO Box 9040 • Portland OR 97207
office 503.245.2733 • fax 503.245.2734 • 888.515.OHRC (6472) • email info@OHRConline.org
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