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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Now Open

Museum Hosts Film Series and Special Guest Speakers – Including Stars of TLC’s “Little People, Big World” – to Coordinate with Travelling Exhibition About Nazi Eugenics Learn More >

Governor signs legislation creating statewide Genocide Commission at Museum

100 State Legislators, Holocaust and Genocide Survivors, Museum and Community Leaders Join Governor Quinn at Bill Signing Ceremony
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Ambassador of Japan to U.S. Visits Museum

On Monday, June 14th, his Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan to the United States, visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Ambassador Fujisaki was joined by his wife, Mrs. Yoriko Fujisaki. The Consul General of Japan in Chicago, Mr. George Hisaeda, and his wife, Mrs. Midori Hisaeda, also accompanied the Ambassador.  Read More >   View Pictures >

Mayor Daley hosts  City of Chicago's Annual Holocaust Commemoration at IHMEC 

The City of Chicago’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day public ceremony was held Thursday, May 6, 2010 with Nazi concentration camp survivor, John Macsai, as the keynote speaker this year.  Read More > 

News Coverage: Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum hosts Day of Remembrance >

Museum Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Series of events celebrates Museum's first year
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Skokie Review | Stanley Speaks about the Museum's Architecture Read Now >

Fritzie Fritzshall, IHMEC President, addresses the Governor’s Yom Hashoah Commemoration in Springfield

The State Journal-Register, Springfield, IL | Auschwitz Survivor Speaks to State Holocaust Observance Read Now >

Museum Surpasses 100,000 Visitors 

Chicago International Charter School students celebrate important milestone with Museum as field trip tips attendance over 100,000 mark  Read More > |  View Pictures >

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In Conversation With... Barbara Steiner
Date: 08.15.10
Time: 1:30pm
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