Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, will be observed beginning at sundown with a memorial service on Wednesday, April 27 at Congregation Beth Israel and continuing with the Reading of the Names on Thursday, April 28 in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Both events will take place in person.
Memorial Service
April 27, 2022 | 7pm (PT) | Congregation Beth Israel
A service at Congregation Beth Israel will take place on Wednesday, April 27 at 7pm (PT) at Congregation Beth Israel with the participation of the Oregon Board of Rabbis, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants. The livestream of the service can be accessed here.
Reading of the Names
April 28, 2022 | 10am-5pm (PT) | Pioneer Courthouse Square
Every year on Yom HaShoah, the Day of Remembrance, communities around the world uphold the memory of victims of the Holocaust through the Reading of the Names, a public recitation of Holocaust victims’ names, ages, and birthplaces. On Thursday, April 28, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will sponsor the Reading of the Names at Pioneer Courthouse Square. A selection of community members and elected officials will be reading the names of those murdered in the Holocaust.
“Each year the Reading of the Names seeks to defy indifference and historical revisionism, such as denial that the Holocaust ever happened, by personalizing the individual tragedy of the dead and the survivors,” explains OJMCHE Director Judy Margles. “As the names of victims are read aloud, they are remembered. Furthermore, keeping the memory of the victims alive fulfills one of the vital tenets of our collective experience – zachor – to remember.”
Rising Up for Human Dignity: Resisting Cultural Erasure is presented by lead sponsors Never Again Coalition, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland State University’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project, and WorldOregon and by co-sponsors The Immigrant Story, Japanese American Museum of Oregon, Portland Chinatown Museum, Five Oaks Museum, Native Arts and Culture Foundation, and with the support of Rabbi Eve Posen.