Whether you are unable to visit OJMCHE or the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in-person, or want to revisit the exhibitions or memorial with your class, you can do so through our digital experiences. Each digital experience provides an opportunity to explore in depth the content of any core exhibition or the memorial. Digital experiences also may provide an exceptional opportunity to re-engage and reflect after a memorial or museum visit.
The Virtual Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial tour is free to access and an educators guide is available for free upon request.
Access to OJMCHE’s core exhibition digital experiences are provided for an entire school year, allowing educators who teach courses in different semesters to share the experience with all students they teach. Each digital experience comes with an educator’s guide that includes the following:
- Relevant Oregon Social Science Standards
- Guidance for how to use the digital experience in your classroom
- Questions to consider asking students before, during, or after the experience
- Supplemental resources and extension lessons
The virtual tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial provides students an opportunity to interact with the Memorial and hear from local survivors Les and Eva Aigner about the importance of public memorials and their impact on how we observe and remember histories of atrocity. Whether engaging as a class or exploring independently, the virtual tour will be sure to stimulate thought-provoking conversations.
Virtual Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial
The Holocaust, An Oregon Perspective digital experience utilizes photographs, oral history, and written testimony to share the experiences of eighteen local Holocaust survivors. By organizing their voices into eight themes (Pre-Holocaust Jewish Life; Jewish Life in Nazi Germany; Invasion, Occupation, and Collaboration; Flight; Ghettos and Deportation; Slave Labor and Killing Centers; Resistance; and Legacy and Memory) students are exposed to a range of narratives that challenge the “single story” they often receive from reading one memoir or book about the Holocaust.
In the Discrimination and Resistance, An Oregon Primer digital experience, students “weave” through a hyperlinked Google Slides deck that highlights Oregon’s history to explore the dynamic relationship between discrimination and resistance.
Oregon Jewish Stories digital experience provides students the opportunity to learn about the rich, unique, and complex history of Oregon Jews, examine how it is integral to the larger history of Oregon, and consider how identities are shaped and evolve over time.
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