04/15/2026
Today is Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. We honor and remember the six million Jewish people and the millions of q***r people, disabled people, Polish and Slavic people, political dissidents like socialists, communists, and unionists, and many others who were murdered by the N**i party.
Every year the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education holds a memorial in Pioneer Square where people are invited to read the names of those who passed.
Today I read names for just ten minutes, and the community took turns reading names until the end of the day.
Fighting back fascism and the supremacy culture that leads to the genocide of entire populations is something we will practice our entire lives, and I am grateful to have had a small but important part in that today.
May their memory be a blessing.