Reverend Clarence Thomas Abbott was born in Alameda, California, in 1921. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Chaplain Corps during World War II. He attended divinity school in Denver, Colorado, after the war, and became a priest in the Episcopal Church. He was a mental health counselor at William Temple House in Portland, Oregon. He died in 1990.

Cathy Abbruzzese (aka “Goddess”) is the Donor Outreach Coordinator at Basic Rights Oregon.

Ron Abell (1932-2012) was born in Los Angeles, California. He was a journalist, author, teacher and activist.

Retha “Ree” Faye Adkins, nee Owen, was born in Hardman, Oregon, in 1904. She worked as a teacher in Heppner, Oregon. In the 1920s, she and Conser L. Adkins were married; they later had two children. During World War II, she worked as an electrician in the Kaiser shipyards in Vancouver, Washington. She died in 1991.

Yuriana Aguilar was born in Mexico. Her family came to the United States when she was 5, and they settled in Fresno, California. She attended the University of California Merced, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. After the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2012, she received protections under the program and continued her studies at UC Merced, earning a Ph.D. in 2016. She then worked as an instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Rob Aichele (1937-2017) was Deputy Chief of the Portland Police Burreau. Before his promotion, he worked in the Traffic Division, Internal Affairs and the Detective Division.

Eva Aigner was born Eva Langfelder in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1937. After her father's business license was revoked under anti-Semitic laws in 1939, the family moved to Budapest, Hungary. In 1943, she was forced to drop out of the first grade and her father was sent to a slave labor camp, where he was later killed. Aigner, her sister, and her mother were forced into the Jewish ghetto of Budapest. Her mother was deported to a concentration camp soon after. Aigner and her sister were taken by Nazis with many other Jews and lined up along the Danube for execution. At the last moment, their mother, who had escaped from the freight train carrying her and others to a concentration camp, arrived and bribed a guard for their release. They returned to the Budapest Ghetto, remaining there until the city's liberation by Russian troops in 1945. In 1956, Eva and Leslie Aigner were married. That same year, the couple fled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. They settled in Portland, Oregon, where Eva Aigner worked in cosmetology. The couple had two children. Eva Aigner has been active with the Holocaust Memorial Coalition.

Leslie Gabor Aigner was born Ladislav Gabor Aigner in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. He was also known as Lazlo Gabor Aigner. His family moved to Budapest, Hungary, in the early 1940s in hopes of escaping the spread of Nazism and the oppression of Jews. However, in 1943, his father was sent to a slave labor camp and his older sister was forced into factory labor. The next year, Nazis forced him, his mother, and his younger sister into the Jewish ghetto of Budapest, and then sent them to Auschwitz shortly after. His mother and younger sister were killed in the gas chambers. Aigner was sent to concentration camps in Germany, first to Landsberg, then to Kaufering, and finally to Dachau, where he was liberated by American troops in 1945. After a month-long recovery period, he returned to Budapest. In 1956, he and Eva Langfelder were married. That same year, the couple fled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. They settled in Portland, Oregon, where Aigner worked as a machinist. The couple had two children. Aigner has been active with the Holocaust Memorial Coalition.

Twila May Alber, nee Twila Mayme Lautzenhiser, was born in North Manchester, Indiana, in 1888. In the 1910s, she and Noah Ray Alber were married; they later had four children. The family moved to Oregon around 1915. At age 55, Alber began studying sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. She then studied weaving at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In the 1960s, she taught at Ohio State University. She later returned to the Portland area. She died in 1978.

Twila May Alber, nee Lautzenhiser (1888-1978) was born in Indiana. She was an artist and an art professor at Ohio State University.

Brianda Alcazar was born in Michoacán, Mexico, in 1993. Her family came to the United States in 1999, and they settled in the Portland, Oregon, area. She earned an associate degree from Portland Community College in 2014 and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Pacific University in 2017. She became a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided protections for some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. She married Salo Acosta and they had two children.

Abdulelah "Abood" Aldabea was born in Damascus, Syria, in 2002. His family fled the civil war in Syria in 2012. They sought refuge with family in Jordan, and were approved for resettlement in the United States in 2014. The family settled in Portland, Oregon, where Aldabea attended Reynolds High School.