Washington Park-Portland, Oregon
The back wall of the memorial lists victims of the death camps. It also includes their surviving relatives from the SW Washington and Oregon area.
Information from the City of Portland:
“The Oregon Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004. The memorial features a stone bench adorned with wrought-iron gating, screened from the street by rhododendron bushes. The bench sits behind a circular, cobblestoned area – simulating a town square. During the Holocaust, many Jewish families were gathered in town squares before being loaded onto trains and taken to concentration camps. The square contains scattered bronzes of shoes, glasses, a suitcase, and other items to represent everyday objects that were……