OHRC Benefit Event Monday, March 1st
HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR NIGHT
Jewish Theatre Collaborative and OHRC present a lecture by Natan Meir, (PSU Jewish studies) entitled The Destruction of a People and a Culture. This talk focuses on the reverberations that came from the Holocaust and displacement of millions, exploring the vibrant and diverse Jewish life of Pre-War Europe, the war that ravaged it and the remnants that remained when it was over. The event will be FREE to the public with donations encouraged. This is a Jewish Theatre Collaborative (JTC) program benefiting the OHRC.
March 8th: Staged Reading of the play Honey Brown Eyes about Bosnia. FREE event benefitting American Jewish World Service.
March 15th: Staged Reading of the play In Darfur about Ethiopia. Further info available from JTC’s Website: www.jewishtheatrecollaborative.org. Events take place at Artists Repertory Theatre, Alder Stage, 1515 Southwest Morrison Street, Portland, OR 97205.
kindertransport
The OHRC partners with Jewish Theatre Collaborative in an effort to bring this critical play to our community. The production will run for 16 performances with three (3) Thursday Student Matinees beginning February 2010, at the Artists Repertory Theater in downtown Portland. Each performance will include a talk back, many with local Holocaust Survivors, actors and historians.
This remarkable play follows the life of a young girl who began her journey alone at 9 years old when her parents placed her on a train to safety. Produced by Sacha Reich, who has the ability to move her actors in the direction which opens the minds of every audience. Continuing performances Thursday through Saturday @ 7:30 pm, Sundays @ 2:00 p.m. through March 21st. Tickets priced at $15 / $20 / $25 available from JTC’s Website www.jewishtheatrecollaborative.org.
Performance will run 2 hours (including short intermission) with a 30 minute talk back session immediately following the performance. An information table with materials from varying genocide awareness/education groups will be set up at every performance throughout the run ( OHRC, Never Again Coalition, etc.) and be manned by "Never Again" Coalition.
LETTERS TO SALA
The OHRC and the Oregon Jewish Museum’s first collaboration since our move! When Sala Garncarz was faced with surgery a few years ago and the question of her death, she approached her daughter: I have something to tell you which I’ve never spoken about.
The exhibit, which tells the tale of Sala’s years in Nazi forced labor camps, was based on letters that Sala saved during World War II; A striking exhibition reproducing the letters, postcards, photographs, and personal documents that Sala managed to save during five brutal years in Nazi work camps.
The exhibit will run March 21, through June 6. Hours: Sundays 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.; Tuesday - Thursday 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Friday 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
March 11th (Thursday) - Presentation by Ann Kirschner, Sala’s daughter (from Letters to Sala) in the OJM/OHRC Auditorium at 11:30 a.m.
March 28th (Sunday): Memorial Cleanup - A Holocaust Memorial Clean Up date is set for 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. We will rake leaves, pull weeds, spread mulch and clean up the Memorial. I hope that you will be able to join us for this important work. If there are any groups that might be interested please let me know.
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