The Herbert and Ella Ostroff Endowment Fund supports programming for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The fund was established in memory of Herbert and Ella Ostroff. Ella was a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust, who, along with her mother, two sisters, and her brother, were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Ella’s mother and brother were murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival. Ella and two of her sisters survived for nearly a year shuffling between Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Dachau. After liberation by American soldiers in 1945, they lived in a displaced person’s camp where they were reunited with their oldest sister. Two years later the sisters immigrated to the United States. Ella met Herbert in 1948 in upstate New York and they eventually married and settled in Portland, where they raised their three children. Herbert died in 2003 and Ella in 2020.
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The Herbert and Ella Ostroff Endowment Fund supports programming for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The fund was established in memory of Herbert and Ella Ostroff. Ella was a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust, who, along with her mother, two sisters, and her brother, were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Ella’s mother and brother were murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival. Ella and two of her sisters survived for nearly a year shuffling between Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Dachau. After liberation by American soldiers in 1945, they lived in a displaced person’s camp where they were reunited with their oldest sister. Two years later the sisters immigrated to the United States. Ella met Herbert in 1948 in upstate New York and they eventually married and settled in Portland, where they raised their three children. Herbert died in 2003 and Ella in 2020.
