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June 20, 2024 (Noon): Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
June 20, 2024 – Nov. 17, 2024 (Exhibition)
The Immigrant Story and the Oregon Historical Society invite you to the grand opening of I Lived to Tell the World, a multimedia exhibition and special panel discussion at the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in Portland, Oregon.
OHS will host the exhibition opening and panel discussion at noon on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2024, a commemoration designed to draw attention to the plight of the more than 100 million people displaced due to numerous conflicts throughout the world.
Eliza E. Canty-Jones, the society’s chief program officer, will lead the conversation. The panelists include:
- Samir Mustafic, a Bosnian soldier, arrived in Oregon as a patient in need of reconstructive surgery.
- Saron Khut, a child survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia
- Dr. Dijana Ihas, who, as a member of the Sarajevo String Quartet, performed more than 200 concerts during the three-year siege of Sarajevo.
A question-and-answer session will follow the panel discussion and will include journalist and author Elizabeth Mehren, whose book, I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War, (Oregon State University Press) provides the title and the inspiration for this event and exhibition. Copies of the book will be available for purchase, and Mehren will be available for book signings after the panel discussion and Q&A.
The multimedia exhibition, running June 20, 2024, through November 17, 2024, includes the work of Portland photographer Jim Lommasson, who selected objects that these survivors carried with them throughout their journeys and juxtaposed them with handwritten testimonies in the form of stories, memories, poems, and drawings. The exhibit also includes three short films produced by Pacific Northwest documentarians in collaboration with the nonprofit NW Documentary. The films emphasize the individual humanity of genocide survivors, forcing viewers to look beyond cold facts and statistics and confront the immense emotional, spiritual, and physical violence to which these survivors were subjected.
The exhibition opening and panel discussion are free and open to the public.
Images for the story can be downloaded from here.
About The Immigrant Story:
The Immigrant Story is a volunteer-run nonprofit with a mission to foster empathy and build a more inclusive community by sharing stories of immigrants and refugees who often overcame tremendous odds to reach the United States.
About the Oregon Historical Society:
For more than 125 years, the Oregon Historical Society has served as the state’s collective memory, preserving a vast collection of objects, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories. Our research library, museum, digital platforms, educational programming, and historical journal make Oregon’s history open and accessible to all.