Portland’s Holocaust Memorial

A beautiful, peaceful space, set in a forested park. IĀ happened upon it.Holocaust memorial wall

 

The wall has quotes from Holocaust survivors who moved to Portland.Life was uncertain

 

All of us children were crying for our parents. A guard came over to us and yelled, “Stop all of your whining! See that chimney, see that smoke, smell that stench in the air? That is your parents!”

 

Left by the wayside

 

One night the Arrow Cross lined us all up at the edge of the Danube River. The line stretched in both directions as far as I could see. The cold stillness of the night air was broken by the sound of gunfire as the Nazis walked down the line shooting every standing person one by one. They stopped shooting just as they got to me.

 

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