A visit to the Holocaust Memorial is a journey in the Town Square where the items left behind lie broken and abandoned. A stroll down the Memorial Walk the paving of stone and granite is a reminder of the rail lines connecting men, women and children to the concentration camps. The Holocaust History Wall tells the story, so that future generations will be reminded of this great atrocity. The poignant personal statements on the Survivors Bear Witness Wall offers a view of history through survivor's experiences. Beneath the Soil Vault Rock is interred the soil and ash collected from the six kill-center camps of the Holocaust: Chelmno, Treblinks, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

On the Memorial Wall, individuals are remembered, their names engraved in capital letters, followed by the names of their surviving relatives in Oregon and Southwest Washington.