Help Remember the Past

We need your help to accurately impart the legacy of our region’s survivors and lost families. Your story of survival can inspire the lives of future generations and empower young people to carry on the fight against intolerance, hatred and antisemitism. Through our new world-class Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, we will reach far more of the nearly 2.5 million students in Illinois than we currently serve.

Please consider donating artifacts related to pre-war life, antisemitic paraphernalia or experiences, life in the camps, resistance, rescue, hiding, post-war resettlement, emigration or the attempted 1970’s neo-Nazi march in Skokie.

Learn more about how to donate artifacts or view more artifacts in our online Artifact Gallery.

For more information, contact 847.967.4817 or artifacts@ilhmec.org.


Page from an album of family photographs dated July 1935, Germany.  IHMEC Collection; Courtesy of the Rehbock family.