SPECIAL EXHIBITION
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
July 23, 2010 - January 2, 2011
This temporary exhibition examines how individuals in the professions traditionally charged with healing helped legitimize Nazi policies with scientific theory. It looks at the Nazi regime's use of Eugenics theory to define, persecute, and murder individuals and people of "inferior" races - including Jews, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, the disabled, the mentally ill, and other minorities - in order to "scientifically" build a German society in which the fittest "Aryans" could thrive.
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Illinois Marks $15 Million U.S. Contribution to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center welcomed the Polish Consul General, Zygmunt Matynia, and three members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation, Reps. Luis V. Gutierrez, Jan Schakowsky and Mike Quigley at an event to mark a $15 million grant to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. Read More > Press Release >
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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