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May 21, 2013

Chicago Reader | "This is not a Holocaust story, this is a war story": The life of Hannah Senesh

"In the end," says curator Louis Levine of his latest exhibit, dedicated to the life of the poet Hannah Senesh, "this is not a Holocaust story. This is a war story."

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May 21, 2013

Skokie Review | In her own words: Holocaust Museum’s Hannah Senesh exhibition transcends myth

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center's new traveling exhibition isn't interested in showing Hannah Senesh as an iconic and heroic martyr.

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May 7, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum honors human trafficking activist

One person who stands up for what is right and tries to stop what is wrong in the world can make a difference, a simple reality behind the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s “Power of One” award.

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May 7, 2013

Pioneer Local | Norridge student’s poem wins award from Illinois Holocaust Museum

The impact of the Holocaust still resonates with a Ridgewood High School student.

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May 6, 2013

Pioneer Local | Suburban teens win Holocaust art contest

Four teens from the northwest suburbs learned this winter how to better think about the world far beyond the Chicago area.

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May 2, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum hosting conference on genocides

Less than a month after the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center ran its first program on the Armenian Genocide, a two-day symposium covering even more ground is slated for the same venue.

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May 1, 2013

The Armenian Weekly | Balakian Speaks at Illinois Holocaust Museum

Author Peter Balakian spoke to an audience of more than 250 people on Sat., April 20, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago, and a town that is still remembered for the controversial march of neo-Nazi groups there in 1979.

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april 29, 2013

Asbarez Armenian News | Balakian Launches Illinois Holocaust Museum 2015 Project

Peter Balakian spoke Sunday, April 20 to an audience of more than 250 people at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago, and a town that is still remembered for the controversial march of neo-Nazi groups there in 1979.

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april 25, 2013

Skokie Review | Museum focuses on Hannah Senesh in new exhibition

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will introduce visitors to Hannah Senesh, one of Israel’s most iconic heroes even though she was killed at only age 23.

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april 24, 2013

Broadway World | Chicago Museum Presents Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 5/14

Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh sheds light on Hannah Senesh, the inspiring 23-year-old young woman who died by firing squad in 1944, but has endured as one of Israel's most iconic heroes.

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april 24, 2013

Public Radio of Armenia | Holocaust Museum shines light on Armenian Genocide

The Illinois Holocaust Museum will sponsor a major exhibition on the Armenian Genocide in 2015 to mark its 100th anniversary, museum next month will host a two-day conference, “The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians,” Executive Director of the Museum Rick Hirschhaut said, Skokie Review reports.

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april 23, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum shines light on Armenian Genocide

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Lawyer of Jewish descent, first coined the term “genocide” in 1944 to describe the systematic extermination of Armenians and Assyrians during and after World War I.

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april 22, 2013

Skokie Review | Illinois Holocaust Museum meets gold standard for being green

No one can visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center without realizing how unique and special it is as a piece of architecture.

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april 18, 2013

The Daily Sizzle | "Israeli Joan of Arc" featured in new museum exhibit

The Illinois Holocaust Museum recently announced its upcoming exhibit, "Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh" on the life of the heroic poet from Budapest known as the "Israeli Joan of Arc."

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april 18, 2013

Chicago Tribune | The real stories behind 'No Place on Earth'

For 511 days, they hid underground in Ukrainian caves while fellow Jews were being executed by machine gun up above.

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april 18, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: New documentary unearths Nazi survival story

Returning to the Ukrainian cave 67 years later – the raw space that protected him from deadly persecution by Nazis in World War II – the survivor makes a simple request.

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april 18, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum plays key role in survivor documentary

When filmmakers were looking to produce a documentary about 38 Holocaust survivors who lived underground in western Ukraine, the Illinois Holocaust Museum was one of their first outreaches.

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april 17, 2013

Chicago Sun-Times | ‘No Place on Earth’ sheds light on Holocaust survivors’ cave dwellings

Returning to the Ukrainian cave 67 years later — the raw space that protected him from deadly persecution by Nazis in World War II — the survivor makes a simple request: Turn off the lights.

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april 10, 2013

Jewish World Review | No Place on Earth

Nearly 75 years after the end of World War II, one has to dig pretty deep to find a unique Holocaust story for the big screen.

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APRIL 5, 2013

NBC5 | Police Recruits Spend Day Immersed in History

During their six months of training, recruits receive more hours of human behavior instruction than most police officers.

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april 1, 2013

Clean Edison Blog | LEED Certifications of March

On January 29, 2013, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center was awarded LEED Gold Certification.

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march 27, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum takes spot among greenest buildings

Architect Stanley Tigerman has many accomplishments to his name, but he admits that his lasting legacy — the project he wants to best be remembered for — is the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie.

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march 26, 2013

Skokie Patch | Illinois Holocaust Museum Achieves LEED Gold Certification

The Skokie-based museum is the second museum in the Chicago area to achieve the LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

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march 26, 2013

Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum Receives $315,000 Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a first-time grant of $315,000 to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.

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march 15, 2013

Splash | Illinois Holocaust Museum Humanitarian Awards Dinner

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s Humanitarian Awards Dinner was themed “the power of one.”

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march 12, 2013

Skokie Patch | Illinois Holocaust Museum Honors Three Humanitarians

The Skokie museum honored J.B. Pritzker, Bill Brodsky and Linda Johnson Rice during its annual fundraising dinner.

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march 11, 2013

Skokie Review | Power of Three: Holocaust Museum Dinner Honors Humanitarians

The “power of one” comes in all shapes and sizes, but the concept has a universal connection: All those who reflect it stand up for what is right and create a ripple effect in so doing.

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march 7, 2013

Crain's Chicago Business | Brodsky, Rice, Pritzker feted by Holocaust museum

Fifteen hundred guests, dozens of A-list CEOs and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist packed the Hyatt Regency for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center's fundraiser Wednesday night.

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march 1, 2013

TWO MOMS, A LITTLE TIME, AND A KEYBOARD | Illinois Holocaust Museum: Exhibits that Speak to the Children

The Illinois Holocaust Museum uses various exhibits to relate the messages learned from the Holocaust to other events that have happened or are happening today.

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February 28, 2013

TWO MOMS, A LITTLE TIME, AND A KEYBOARD | The Illinois Holocaust Museum: An Important Journey

We are very lucky to live an area with many resources that aid our children (and ourselves) as we learn about life, the world, and our place in it.

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February 26, 2013

GOOD NEWS SKOKIE | What 8th Grade Students Can Learn at the Holocaust Museum

On a recent Friday morning I had the extraordinary good luck to accompany a group of Middle School 8th graders to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center off Golf Road and Edens Highway in northern Skokie.

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February 12, 2013

Skokie Review | The Power of Staying Behind

When a government worker told Carl Wilkens to talk to Jean Kambanda about saving the 60 children in a Kigali orphanage from the Hutu militia, Wilkens could scarcely believe his ears.

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February 8, 2013

Chicago Tribune | Holocaust Museum's message: Don't bully

The little girl is only 8, and so she does not yet read newspapers or watch or listen to the local news.

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February 7, 2013

Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum explores lesser-known origins of Brown v. Board of Education

The “sanctioned” history of the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, hasn’t always been easy for Joseph A. De Laine Jr. and his sister, Ophelia De Laine Gona to hear.

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February 6, 2013

WBEZ | Holocaust Museum Depicts Life Before Racial Integration

As an African-American born during World War II, when the subject is race, I’m always interested in the many stories that have not been told.

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February 1, 2013

Make It Better | 5 Things to Do: February 1-3

We're celebrating this month with outdoor adventures, theatrics and cultural outings.

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january 29, 2013

Down With Film Blog | Trailer: Skokie: Invaded, But Not Forgotten

This documentary covers the town of Stokie, Illnois, which in 1977, had the largest percentage of holocaust survivors in the U.S

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january 29, 2013

Examiner | 'Courage' Exhibit at IL Holocaust Museum - a tribute, but an end to segregation?

There continues to be a need for dialogue on issues of schooling and race that still confront America.

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january 29, 2013

Medill News | Illinois Holocaust Museum connects the dots of genocide

Rather than dwelling on history, the Illinois Holocaust Museum honored the 68th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation by focusing on a more recent genocide -- in the Central African nation of Rwanda.

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january 29, 2013

Chicago Tribune | Holocaust survivor, reunited with sister, is now a U.S. citizen

Adam Paluch, 73, was one of the first candidates to arrive Monday at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building downtown.

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january 26, 2013

Daily Herald | Moving Picture: Mundelein Holocaust survivor finds past

It took 45 years, but Adam Paluch finally found out who he was.

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january 25, 2013

TimeOut Chicago | ‘Courage’ Exhibit Coming to Illinois Holocaust Museum

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will commence Black History Month with the exhibition "COURAGE: The Vision to End Segregation, The Guts to Fight For It" on February 3.

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january 24, 2013

Chicago Tonight | New Film Explores Skokie's Battle with Neo-Nazis

A new documentary airing on WTTW explores the explosive moment when a group of neo-Nazis sought to march in Skokie, Illinois in 1979 – and the landmark legal drama that ensued.

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january 22, 2013

Chicago Sun-Times | ‘Invaded But Not Conquered’ documents Skokie neo-Nazi uproar

One of the many ways to divide time in Skokie is to look at life before and after the neo-Nazis tried to march downtown.

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january 22, 2013

Skokie Review | Reflections on Skokie’s neo-Nazi march attempt

Filmmaker Todd Whitman admits that he could have made a much longer documentary on the neo-Nazis’ attempted 1977 and 1978 march in Skokie.

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january 21, 2013

Chicago Tribune | Screening "Skokie: Invaded but not Conquered"

The story of Skokie and the way it rallied a community, a region and a state to stand up to the racism of neo-Nazism is told once again in a new documentary that takes a fresh look at old wounds.

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january 18, 2013

Chicago Jewish News | Invaded but Not Conquered

Aaron Elster still remembers what it felt like in 1978 when Nazis wanted to march in his hometown of Skokie.

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january 16, 2013

Chicago Tribune | Reawakening the ghosts of Skokie

To me, a kid growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Skokie seemed like any other suburb, its tidy houses sitting on impeccably manicured lawns.

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