OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION
Alter Wiener
This past September, Alter testified at the Oregon State Capitol for mandatory statewide curriculum standards that would require teachers to educate students about the Holocaust and genocide. There can be no better tribute to Alter Wiener and all survivors of the Holocaust but for this mandate to come to fruition in the next legislative session. May the memory of Alter Wiener be a blessing for his family and for those of us who were privileged to know him.
Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Oregon Jewish Museum
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Oregonians had an incredible resource at The Oregon Jewish Museum to learn about what Jewish families went through.
Oregon Holocaust Memorial Virtual Tour
A Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Oregon. Photography, Editing, Narration by Chris Reed. Musical accompaniment, Monica Levin.
Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial on 8.1.12.
The Portland Human Rights Commission toured the Oregon Holocaust Memorial located in Washington Park on August 1 2012. Later the commissioners had their monthly public meeting at the office of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial. This is the footage from the PHRC tour. The full meeting video is here:
Oregon bill would require holocaust education
Oregon bill would require holocaust education
EXHIBITION: Memory Unearthed & The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz
Portland Art Museum's photography exhibition, Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, and it's companion exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz, many have many similarities, but they do act as bookends to one another. In this video, PAM's Minor White Curator of Photography, Julia Dolan, and OJMCHE's Director, Judy Margles, talk a bit about the exhibition and its relevance today.
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Everett HS Holocaust Field Trip 2015
Watch Everett High School's reflection upon their trip to the United Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
Things to do in Portland - Oregon Maritime Museum
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Final Remembrance Ceremony At Dallas Holocaust Museum Before New One Opens
Survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Holocaust memorials in North Texas and across the country Sunday.
Christina Olsen, Director of Education & Public Programs, Portland Art Museum
Produced September 15, 2011 - Portland Art Museum
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It can be seen only on Comcast and is aired every hour on CNN Headline News 54 minutes past the hour with the exception of primetime on weekdays. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
Real Dibbok Box Demon Story Paranormal Witness Possession
Jason Haxton owner of the Dibbuk Box will be telling his story and answering questions pertaining to his ownership, and the horrific paranormal events that occurred. The Dibbuk Box has been featured on SyFy's Paranormal Witness, and recently the subject of the movie, The Possession.
When: 6:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Cst / 9:30 Eastern
Where: livescifi.tv
Jason Haxton Biography
The Dibbuk Box owner has been the director of a mid-size museum for the past 10 years. He has studied American antiques and ancient artifacts for the past 26 years, collected and researched Mayan pottery for his thesis in the humanities, and has lectured on art history, paranormal & ancient art for 6 years at a mid-size liberal arts university. He currently is working on his Doctorate in Education.
Prior to his Museum work, he was a university administrator for over 10 years. He has recently worked on several projects with the Smithsonian Institute Museums, served as a researcher/benefactor with the state capitol of Missouri, and a lecturer with his state's arts council. He is a member of several local historical groups.
He facilitates exhibits that have served almost 3-million visitors across the USA and travels frequent overseas with exhibits to Germany, Russia, Australia, Canada, and England. He has received federal grants for curriculum development for schools across the nation, and for preservation & protection of artifacts.
Kevin Mannis, one of the original owners of the Dibbuk Box and featured story on SyFy's Paranormal Witness.
The Dibbuk (or Dybbuk) Box was a wine cabinet said to be haunted by a spirit or related to Jewish Folklore.
Kevin Mannis Bio
Mannis once owned a small antiques and furniture refinishing business in Portland, Oregon. In 2001 Mannis bought the Box at a local estate sale. The box had previously belonged to a Polish Holocaust survivor named Havela, who had escaped to Spain and purchased it there before moving to the United States. Havela's granddaughter told Mannis that the Box had never been opened because a dibbuk was said to have lived inside it. Mannis offered to return the box, but the granddaughter refused and did not want anything more to do with it.
Mannis claimed he experienced a series of horrific nightmares while in possession of the box. When the box in the basement of his furniture shop, an employee heard glass shattering and other things breaking despite the fact that no one was down there and the basement had been locked up. His mother suffered a stroke on the same day he gave her the box as a birthday present. Mannis managed to sell the box to another owner, but as the box passed on from one person to another, they each experienced supernatural happenings and strange health problems.
Factfinders at Portland State
Twenty-one Portland State students from many cultural backgrounds took the trip of a lifetime last fall to explore Israel and the Palestinian Authority under the guidance of a Jewish student leadership organization. Read more:
An Enlightening, Absorbing Story of an Amazing Woman (2003)
Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and a United States government official.
Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York, one of five children of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Gussie (Rockower) and David Gruber.[1] She dreamed of becoming a writer and was encouraged by her parents to obtain higher education. She matriculated at New York University at the age of 15. At eighteen she won a postgraduate fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] In 1931, she won another fellowship from the Institute of International Education to study in Cologne, Germany.[3][4] She received a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in German Philosophy, Modern English Literature, and Art History, becoming the youngest person in the world to receive a doctorate.[5] The subject of her dissertation was Virginia Woolf.
In 1951, Gruber married Philip H. Michaels, a community leader in the South Bronx. She gave birth to two children, one of whom is Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels, and continued her journalistic travels. She wrote a popular column for Hadassah Magazine, Diary of an American Housewife.[10]
Some years after Philip Michaels' death in 1968, Gruber married longtime New York City Social Services administrator Henry J. Rosner in 1974.
In 1978 she spent a year in Israel writing Raquela: A Woman of Israel, about an Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, who worked in a British detention camp and in a hospital in Beersheba. This book won the National Jewish Book Award in 1979 for Best Book on Israel.[10]
In 1985 at the age of 74, she visited isolated Jewish villages in Ethiopia and described the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews in Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews. Gruber received many awards for her writing and humanitarian acts, including the Na'amat Golda Meir Human Rights Award and awards from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.
On October 21, 2008, Gruber was honored for her work defending free expression by the National Coalition Against Censorship. In 2016, an exhibit of her photographs titled Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist was on display at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland.[11]
She died at the age of 105 on November 17, 2016.[7][12]
Gruber's first volume of her autobiography Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent was published in 1991.
The 2001 television film Haven is based on Gruber's life story. The film stars Natasha Richardson as Gruber and Anne Bancroft as her mother Gussie. Bancroft was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role. A documentary about Gruber's life, titled Ahead of Time, was released in 2010.[13]
Oregon Maritime Museum Highlights in Portland Danny Hauger Travel Podcasts
Danny Hauger Travel podcasts steps aboard the sternwheeler Portland, the last operating steam-powered sternwheel tug in the United States. One look at the big wheel, and you will find yourself propelled to explore! I was, and Dave was a terrific docent for my journey. I was blown away by the extensive remodel of this vessel carried mainly by volunteer labor, the Portland community, and sponsors around the area. Seeing the support and love that this tug has received is quite moving. Enjoy some photos from my trip, and plan your next visit today.
Regular Hours: Weds, Fri & Sat 11am to 4pm
Tours take a minimum of 45 minutes; for this reason, the last tour begins at 3:15pm.
The museum is located on the Willamette River
near Waterfront Park southwest of Naito Parkway at Pine St,
Portland, Oregon
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History Unfolded - Questions from citizen historians
Staff members from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's History Unfolded project answer questions submitted by some of the citizen historians who have participated.
Lasansky: Inside the Image
A biography of the life and work of Mauricio Lasansky, Professor Emeritus, Art & Art History.
Holocaust survivor in La Jolla writes memoir
Holocaust survivor in La Jolla writes memoir