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May 7, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum honors human trafficking activist
May 7, 2013
Pioneer Local | Norridge student’s poem wins award from Illinois Holocaust Museum
May 6, 2013
Pioneer Local | Suburban teens win Holocaust art contest
May 2, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum hosting conference on genocides
May 1, 2013
The Armenian Weekly | Balakian Speaks at Illinois Holocaust Museum
april 29, 2013
Asbarez Armenian News | Balakian Launches Illinois Holocaust Museum 2015 Project
april 25, 2013
Skokie Review | Museum focuses on Hannah Senesh in new exhibition
april 24, 2013
Broadway World | Chicago Museum Presents Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 5/14
april 24, 2013
Public Radio of Armenia | Holocaust Museum shines light on Armenian Genocide
april 23, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum shines light on Armenian Genocide
april 22, 2013
Skokie Review | Illinois Holocaust Museum meets gold standard for being green
april 18, 2013
The Daily Sizzle | "Israeli Joan of Arc" featured in new museum exhibit
april 18, 2013
Chicago Tribune | The real stories behind 'No Place on Earth'
april 18, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: New documentary unearths Nazi survival story
april 18, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum plays key role in survivor documentary
april 17, 2013
Chicago Sun-Times | ‘No Place on Earth’ sheds light on Holocaust survivors’ cave dwellings
april 10, 2013
Jewish World Review | No Place on Earth
APRIL 5, 2013
NBC5 | Police Recruits Spend Day Immersed in History
april 1, 2013
Clean Edison Blog | LEED Certifications of March
march 27, 2013
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum takes spot among greenest buildings
march 26, 2013
Skokie Patch | Illinois Holocaust Museum Achieves LEED Gold Certification
march 26, 2013
Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum Receives $315,000 Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
march 15, 2013
Splash | Illinois Holocaust Museum Humanitarian Awards Dinner
march 12, 2013
Skokie Patch | Illinois Holocaust Museum Honors Three Humanitarians
march 11, 2013
Skokie Review | Power of Three: Holocaust Museum Dinner Honors Humanitarians
march 7, 2013
Crain's Chicago Business | Brodsky, Rice, Pritzker feted by Holocaust museum
march 1, 2013
TWO MOMS, A LITTLE TIME, AND A KEYBOARD | Illinois Holocaust Museum: Exhibits that Speak to the Children
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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