january 24, 2012
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Jewish World War II vets drive new exhibit
More than 400 voices are behind the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s forthcoming comprehensive exhibition exploring American Jews who fought in World War II.
january 20, 2012
Chicago Jewish News | Pennies in Memory
On Sunday, Jan. 29, BEANS USY (Beth El at North Suburban Synagogue United Synagogue Youth) of Highland Park will present a donation of 1.5 million pennies ($15,000) to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
january 19, 2012
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Landmark play asks big moral questions
“It is not only Ernst Janning that is put on trial here. It is the German people.”
january 13, 2012
Dupage Regional Office of Education | International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The United Nations has designated January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
january 3, 2012
Huffington Post | The Sound Of Silence: Resolving To Speak Out In 2012
Even as the New Year has come and gone, change, often avoided or dismissed, becomes an overwhelming motivator.
december 21, 2011
Wilmette Life | Graphic novel art reawakens survivor stories
Their stories are told in a variety of ways — through old photographs and film, eyewitness testimony and meticulously installed summary panels, an upper floor art gallery and a lower floor space for traveling exhibitions.
december 5, 2011
Elm Leaves | River Grove Students visit Holocaust Museum
A group of River Grove School students visited Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie last month and learned about bullying and the Holocaust.
november 23, 2011
East Peoria Times Courier | EPCHS Students Travel for Holocaust Lesson
Eight East Peoria Community High School juniors recently stepped outside their classroom for an important lesson in history.
november 17, 2011
JUF News | The Valiant and the Indifferent—Honoring Rescuers, Commemorating Kristallnacht
At a special community gathering, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center contrasted the acts of righteous “upstanders” with the indifference demonstrated during “Kristallnacht,” often referred to as the “Night of Shattered Glass.”
november 7, 2011
Chicago Sun Times | Illinois Holocaust Museum, Jewish escapees honor rescuers
Chaya Roth and Gitta Fajerstein-Walchirk have a close bond with a 90-year-old Catholic priest living in a nursing home in Cuneo, Italy.
november 7, 2011
Skokie Review | Heroes help mark Kristallnacht anniversary
Chaya Roth and Gitta Fajerstein-Walchirk have a close bond with a 90-year-old Catholic priest living in a nursing home in Cuneo, Italy.
november 6, 2011
ABC News | Several honored for helping rescue Jews in WWII
Three days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht the Illinois Holocaust Museum in suburban Skokie honored people from Italy, Poland and Lithuania who helped rescue Jews during World War II.
OCTOBER 27, 2011
National Parks Magazine | The Art of Gaman
“The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts of the Japanese American Internment Camps: 1942-1946” was recently exhibited at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery and is currently traveling the country.
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Skokie Review | Museum Fights Against Bullying
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s inaugural all-day Anti-Bullying Forum last week, packed with useful information for educators from throughout the region, seemed to gravitate toward a few repeated points.
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Skokie Review | Chicago Schools CEO Weighs in on Bullying
“How many of you were subject to bullying while you were in school?” Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard raised his hand even if he was the one who posed the question.
october 19, 2011
Chicago Tonight | Bullying
There is a national push to eradicate bullying. Are schools doing enough to combat the problem? We hear from Dorothy Espelage, one of the nation's top experts on bullying, on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm.
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Enhanced youth exhibit inspires kids to stand up
More than two years later, the simplest of words continue to be as meaningful as ever. “Make a difference.”
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Trib Local | Families Invited to Day of Kid-friendly Events at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center invites families to celebrate the re-launch of the newly enhanced and expanded Make a Difference! The Miller Family Youth Exhibition with an afternoon of family fun.
september 29, 2011
Lincolnwood Review | Other Programs Complement Japanese-American Artworks
The Japanese-American population in Chicago stood at about 400 before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. By the time World War II ended and Japanese-American internment camps were dismantled, that population spiked to about 20,000.
September 23, 2011
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum Shines Light on Prisoner Art
Families were torn apart, businesses and homes were lost, lives were interrupted overnight.
September 22, 2011
Chicago Tonight | The Art of Gaman
When Japanese-Americans were rounded up and shipped to internment camps in the U.S. during World War II, some of them created art and handiwork to help them cope. Paintings, carvings and sculptures are part of The Art of Gaman exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, which opens on Sunday.
September 22, 2011
Crain's Chicago Business | 10 Things to Do this Weekend
REMEMBER. "THE ART OF GAMAN: ARTS AND CRAFTS FROM THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMPS, 1942- 1946," an exhibit that was on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, opens at the Illinois Holocaust Museum this weekend.
September 13, 2011
Lake Forester | New Exhibit displays Japanese Prisoner Art
A showcase of arts and crafts made by Japanese American prisoners while interned in the United States from 1942 to 1946 will be featured in a new exhibition this month at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
September 2, 2011
JUF News | Sunday at the Museum
Adventures of a Jewish 20-something, by Stefanie Pervos Bregman
august 29, 2011
Lincolnwood Review | 'Eleven' Concert at Museum Honors Memory of Sept. 11th Victims
Chicago cabaret artist Joan Curto was excitedly waiting to board a plane at O’Hare Airport for her New York City debut when the flight was abruptly cancelled. It was Sept. 11, 2001.
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august 24, 2011
TimeOut Chicago | Spots of Light featured in "This Week in Chicago"
A contemporary concept enlivens enthralling stories of women in the Holocaust.
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july 29, 2011
Chicago Jewish News | To Be a Woman in the Holocaust
The touching and revelatory exhibit -- the first international exhibition to focus exclusively on women and their experiences during the Holocaust -- tells many stories through large-scale projections grouped according to subject matter.
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july 25, 2011
Skokie Review | Cancer Survivor uses Handbag Art to Heal
july 25, 2011
Skokie Review | Being a Survivor Examined through the Arts
july 1, 2011
Skokie Patch | Holocaust Exhibit Spotlights Women's Plight
july 1, 2011
Lincolnwood Review | Heroic women from Holocaust highlighted in museum exhibit
June 26, 2011
Daily Herald | Skokie Museum Offers First Look at Women of Holocaust
“Spots of Light: To be a Woman in the Holocaust” opened this week at the Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
The exhibit is part of a traveling exhibit from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
June 24, 2011
Crain's Chicago Business | 10 Things to Do this Weekend
REMEMBER. The video-art based exhibition, "SPOTS OF LIGHT: TO BE A WOMAN IN THE HOLOCAUST," opens this week at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
June 20, 2011
Lake Michigan Shore | Truth, Tears and Tolerance: Illinois Holocaust Museum pays tribute to victims, honors survivors
It all began in the aftermath of the proposed neo-Nazi march on Skokie in the late 1970s. Holocaust survivors living in the area realized they must ensure that the legacy of their horrific experiences is passed on to future generations. It took a while. In 1981, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois was established and in 1984, a small museum and resource center opened, making it available to the public, especially schoolchildren, who heard first-hand the personal experiences of Holocaust survivors.
June 12, 2011
Daily Herald | Women in the Holocaust Exhibit Opens
A new exhibit focusing the experiences of women in the Holocaust is opening at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
“Spots of Light: To be a Woman in the Holocaust” is the first international exhibit to focus exclusively on women.
mAY 24, 2011
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Civil rights giant stays determined to get in the way
The former “Freedom Rider” and the last living civil rights leader who spoke at the historic March on Washington rally more than 47 years ago still believes in “getting in the way” to fight injustice in the world.
That’s how U.S. Congressman John Lewis says he has always lived his life, offering that politics is a continuation of the principles that guided him as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
mAY 11, 2011
Lincolnwood Review | Chicago marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in Skokie
Ever since the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center was built two years ago, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has commemorated the city’s Holocaust Remembrance Day there.
“Each year, this day serves as a reminder of a tragic time in history that this generation should not be allowed to forget,” city organizers said.
Holocaust survivor Beatrice Muchman served as a keynote speaker last week at the ceremony held Thursday in Skokie.
mAY 10, 2011
Skokie Review | Croatian president quietly visits Holocaust Museum
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was there before the museum even opened.
Former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel spoke and toured the facility on opening day. Rwanda humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina took a tour on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
But for all the dignitaries and distinguished guests of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center over the last two years, no one has been a sitting head of state.
aPRIL 30 / mAY 7
WCIU-The U | Holocaust and Veteran’s Museums
In this episode we explore two unique historical institutions that possess thought-provoking exhibits and are located beyond the downtown Museum Campus: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and National Veterans Art Museum.
mAY 5, 2011
YouTube | Remain Constantly Vigiliant Against Hate Crimes, Mayor Daley Says at 22nd Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Hate crimes and crimes against humanity continue to occur all around the world every day and we must be constantly vigilant to make sure that prejudice and intolerance never obtain a foothold in Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley said at ceremonies marking the City's 22nd Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In 1990, Daley started Holocaust Remembrance Day in Chicago in memory of the victims and in honor of the survivors of one of darkest moments in the history of humanity.
MAY 2, 2011
Vocalo 89.5, sister station of Chicago Public Radio | Hear Fritzie Fritzshall’s inspirational story of survival
May 2nd is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day. Fritizie Fritzshall, Holocaust survivor and President of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, joined Brian Babylon and Molly Adams of the Morning AMp for an eye-opening conversation. Fritzie shared her story of survival and spoke about the education efforts of the museum.
April 23, 2011
The New York Times | Memories of Holocaust, Fortified
SKOKIE, Ill. — Before the $45 million Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center opened here two years ago, there was some urgency in completing its 65,000-square-foot building, which now stands so incongruously monumental in the midst of Chicago’s suburban landscape.
April 13, 2011
ABC 7 News | Condoleezza Rice for the Illinois Holocaust Museum
Condoleezza Rice spoke eloquently at our 2011 Humanitarian Awards Dinner about the importance of not treating groups of individuals as "other than us."
April 13, 2011
Crain's Chicago Business | Holocaust Museum announces $1M scholarship fund in name of Daleys
The Illinois Holocaust Museum hosted a fundraising event earlier this week where honoree Michael Sacks and museum campaign chairman J.B. Pritzker announced a nearly $1-million scholarship fund that will benefit Chicago Public School students.
Museum executives say the Mayor Richard M. and Maggie C. Daley Education Fund is a fitting tribute to the outgoing mayor, who became emotional Tuesday night when he talked about the importance of telling Holocaust survivors' stories.
April 12, 2011
Illinois Government News Network | Governor Quinn Appoints Members to Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission
Governor Pat Quinn today appointed nine individuals to serve on the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission. Commission members will work to promote education and awareness of the Holocaust and genocide around the world.
“We must never forget the atrocities and horrors of the Holocaust,” said Governor Quinn. “This commission will increase awareness of the Holocaust and other past genocides to make sure that ‘never again’ is not a meaningless slogan.”
march 28, 2011
Chicago Tribune | Hurt by prejudice, healed by unity
Perhaps it is because Gwendolyn DuBose Rogers and her beloved college professor, though raised continents apart, had childhoods scarred by bitter, dehumanizing prejudice.
Or maybe it's that the teaching didn't end after graduation half a century ago but continued right up until Lore May Rasmussen died in 2009 at 88. Read Online >
march 23, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times | Exhibit details WWII era Jewish scholars' impact on black colleges
They were two groups an ocean apart with seemingly little in common — black Southerners living under Jim Crow, seeking a college education, and free-thinking German and Austrian academics under duress in the 1930s.
They formed a lifelong commitment to each other after the professors, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, gained employment at historically black colleges and universities in the South.
march 22, 2011
WBEZ91.5 | Exhibition presents history of Jewish scholars teaching at historically black colleges
Shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, laws were passed barring Jews from working in the public sector. That meant many of the most important minds were tossed out of their jobs at major universities. In response, The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars formed in New York. Within a few years, the Committee brought about 300 professors to the U.S. Nine were hired by The University of Chicago. Listen Online >
march 22, 2011
Make it Better | Illinois Holocaust Museum Anti-Bullying Workshop
On March 9th, more than 60 5th and 6th grade students from Chicago and its surrounding suburbs participated in an Anti-Bullying workshop entitled STAND UP! Youth Leadership Day at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
The workshop included museum tours, group activities, and a presentation by a survivor of the war in Bosnia, Nadja Halibegovich, who led her country towards peace by broadcasting music and poetry over the radio. Read Online >
march 21, 2011
Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum Announces 2011 Docent Training Program
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is pleased to announce that they are now accepting applicants for their 2011 Docent Training Program. This select corps of Docents will be responsible for leading student and adult tours through the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition; Make A Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition; Legacy of Absence Art Gallery; and changing special exhibitions. Read Online >
march 21, 2011
Trib Local | Exelon Funds $250,000 Anti-Bullying Initiative
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center has received a $250,000 grant from Exelon Corporation to establish the Museum’s Anti-Bullying Initiative. The new educational program kicked off with a full-day workshop entitled STAND UP! Youth Leadership Day on Wednesday, March 9. A program of the Miller Family Youth Exhibition, over 60 fifth and sixth grade students participated, traveling to the museum from Chicago and surrounding suburbs, Rockford, and Northwest Indiana. Read Online >
march 14, 2011
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Ambitious programming fulfills IHMEC mission
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center turns two years old next month, having opened during the same month designated as Genocide Awareness Month and on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
After two years, the museum and education facility continues to fulfill its mission, not only as a sacred place where memories and history are preserved but as a learning ground to try to educate and prevent future genocide. Read Online >
march 10, 2011
Jewish Exponent | Debating Museums' Future in Shaky Times
The state and stature of American Jewish museums was "Exhibit A" last week at the annual conference of the institutions' directors and programmers, held at the spanking new National Museum of American Jewish History.
Gathered at the museum on Independence Mall -- with tours and side trips to such nearby sites as the Constitution Center and Temple Judea Museum at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park -- more than 200 delegates of the Council of American Jewish Museums delved into such topics as curating and collecting, as well as the "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats" facing the institutions. Read Online >
march 9, 2011
Chicago Tribune | Helping Museum Workers Collect Know-How
For many of the students in Arielle Weininger's class in museum collection practices, the issues are more than academic.
Part of a certificate program in artifact collection care that began last fall at the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies, the class has attracted volunteers, interns and employees from museums and archives across the Chicago area. Read Online >
march 7, 2011
Chicago Tribune | On the town: Upcoming events
A compelling story is explored in the exhibition "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The story is about Jewish scholars who fled Nazi Germany for the United States, and became professors at historically black colleges in the South. Read Online >
February 25, 2011
Chicago Tribune | Exhibit Explores Jewish and African-American connections at HBCUs
A compelling story is explored in the exhibition "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The story is about Jewish scholars who fled Nazi Germany for the United States, and became professors at historically black colleges in the South.
The exhibition looks at how shared racial persecution shaped relationships between the Jewish instructors and African-American students. Read Online >
February 24, 2011
Time Out Chicago | "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow" at Illinois Holocaust Museum
A sign—jews not welcome—hangs over a German college’s gate; a U.S. association for Realtors document discourages home sales to certain races; a New York union broadside espouses anti-immigrant policy. Using these and other artifacts, Illinois Holocaust Museum paints a picture of a perverted era: Jewish professors—kicked out of German colleges—emigrated to the U.S. during WWII and gladly found jobs at black universities in the Jim Crow South. Read Online >
February 7, 2011
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum : Exhibit tells little known-story of Jewish and Black history
Scholar Ernst Borinski and many just like him led two very different and distinguished lives by the time their careers ended. Before 1939, German-born Borinski studied law, the humanities and arts at multiple universities. He clerked in the Prussian High Court, served as a judicial officer and worked for a private company on labor law issues.
But Borinski was Jewish, and when the Nazis marched into Austria in 1938, he left his homeland and found himself in America trying to create a new life. Read Online >
January 31, 2001
Daily Herald | Holocaust museum examines Jewish persecution and Jim Crow
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow,” explores the unlikely coming together of these two groups, each the object of exclusion and hatred, and examines the ongoing encounter between them as they navigated the challenges of life in the segregated South.
Through historical objects, photographs, texts and artworks such as “The Gleaners” by John Biggers, visitors learn the stories of two disenfranchised groups brought together in search of opportunity and freedom. Read Online >
Skokie Review | Holocaust Museum: Exhibit describes refugee Jewish scholars at black colleges
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center's newest traveling exhibition tells the under-reported story of German-Jewish refugee scholars expelled from their homeland by the Nazis who found new lives at historically black colleges in the American South.
"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges," scheduled to open Friday, is further indication of how this invaluable facility in Skokie places a high priority on the "education" part of its mission. Read Online >
January 28, 2011
Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum Commemorates 66th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center hosted renowned scholar Robert Jan van Pelt on January 27 for a full-day, interactive workshop. During the program,"Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State,” van Pelt led close to one hundred midwest educators through a detailed exploration of the decision-making process of the Nazis, the various stages of the development of Auschwitz, and the moral "gray zone" that existed inside this infamous camp. Read More >
January 27, 2011
Trib Local | A Call to Action on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
“Inherent in authentic remembrance is vigilance and action. More often than not, remembrance has been bereft of such crucial components. Memory can be a graveyard, but it can also be the true kingdom of man.”
These words, so eloquently spoken by Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, address the pledge that our generation and future generations must undertake to uphold the torch of remembrance and accept the legacy bestowed upon us.
Today marks the sixty-sixth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with commemorations across the globe in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read More >
November 15, 2010
Lincolnwood Review | Museum president reflects on anniversary
Every Nov. 9, the anniversary of the Nazis' unleashed attack on Jewish businesses, synagogues and homes in pre-World War II Germany, Fritzie Fritzshall remembers. She remembers her three lives.
"That's how I look at it," says the president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center on the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht. "There was before, during and after." Read More >
November 8, 2010
Winnetka Talk | Program recalls horrors of 1938's Kristallnacht
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will commemorate Kristallnacht Tuesday night for the second time since the facility opened in April 2009.
Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass" marked a series of attacks against Jewish people throughout Germany and parts of Austria over two days on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. Read More >
October 31, 2010
Daily Herald | 'We knew one line was going to the gas chamber'
Auschwitz survivor heads exhibit that highlights holocaust horrors
Josef Mengele died in 1979 but he lives on in Fritzie Fritzshall's nightmares: He's the unsmiling Angel of Death, peering at lines of naked Auschwitz prisoners and callously choosing who would live and who die.
"We had to walk undressed sometimes every single day, sometimes every two days, sometimes twice a day," said Fritzshall, a Buffalo Grove resident and board president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie. She arrived at Auschwitz in 1944. Read More >
October 25, 2010
Skokie Patch | Students Urged to Fight Bullying Scourge
Skokie seminar has Holocaust survivors sharing their life-and-death tales during the Nazi tyranny
From Independence, IA, to Joliet, IL, 110 high school students recently convened in Skokie to learn about standing up against bullying, leadership and diversity. The event takes on greater significance following highly publicized reports of bullying across the nation, said Rachel Hellenga, director of program services at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Read More >
August 11, 2010
Illinois Marks $15 Million US Contribution to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Poland at Museum
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. The grant, announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July, resulted in part from a Congressional effort, led by Rep. Gutierrez, to urge the President and the Secretary to fund the preservation of the museum marking the epicenter of the Holocaust. Read More > Press Release >
July 15, 2010
Governor signs legislation creating statewide Genocide Commission at Illinois Holocaust Museum
100 State Legislators, Holocaust and Genocide Survivors, Museum and Community Leaders Join Governor Quinn at Bill Signing Ceremony Read More >
News Coverage:
Skokie Review | New genocide commission becomes law Read Online >
TribLocal | Quinn's bill sets Holocaust commission Read Online >
June 24, 2010
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race to Open at IHMEC in July
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 Read More > Learn more about Deadly Medicine >
June 14, 2010
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 >
May 4, 2010 | Mayor Daley hosts City of Chicago 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 > Press Release >
News Coverage: Trib Local | Illinois Holocaust Museum hosts Day of Remembrance >
April 20, 2010 | Museum Celebrates One Year Anniversary >
Series of events celebrates Museum's first year | CBS 2 News | ABC | Journal Gazette
Skokie Review | Stanley Speaks about the Museum's Architecture Read Now >
April 15, 2010 | 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 >
April 9, 2010 >
Chicago Tribune | The Museum encourages Naperville teen in effort to name the victims of the Holocaust. Read Now >
April 7, 2010 >
Museum Surpasses 100,000 Visitors: Students from Chicago International Charter School - Basil Campus accounted for the 100,000th visitor to the museum on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. The students each received a "100 Grand" candy bar and a museum t-shirt. The school library was given a copy of Memory and Legacy. Read More > View Pictures >
March 24, 2010 | Exhibit, The Wartime Escape, Opens >
Chicago Sun Times | The brave escape of Curious George: Exhibit shows how author, illustrator dodged Holocaust Read Now >
CBS2 Chicago | Holocaust Museum Honors Curious George Creators Read Now >
Shalom Life | Holocaust Museum Features Curious George Read Now >
March 11, 2010
Pioneer Press | Awards dinner honors museum's first year Read More>
The News Tribune, Seattle-Tacoma | Teacher, attendee of Museum seminar, featured in local newspaper Read More >
March 10, 2010 >
State's Attorney Alvarez Announces Hate Crimes Initiatives at Museum: Announcement renewed efforts in the fight against hate crimes in Cook County. Learn More >
March 9, 2010 >
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Honors Three Leaders with Humanitarian Awards; Tom Brokaw Keynotes Gala Read More >
March 1, 2010 >
Midwest Construction | Bully & Andrews brings Muchin College Prep Students and Illinois Holocaust Museum Together Read More >
January 7, 2010 >
Pioneer Press | Winnetka Teen gets Ho Feng Shan honored on the Museum Fountain of the Righteous Read More >
January 2010 >
Chicago Magazine | Action Heroes: Chicagoans of the Year 2009: Sam Harris Read the Article >
December 13, 2009 >
Southtown Star | Local Police Recruits Learn Lessons from the Holocaust Read More >
The Island Packet | Righteous Gentiles are really true Heroes Read More>
Arizona Daily Star | Proposed “Museum of Tolerance” in Arizona looks to IHMEC for model Read More >
December 12, 2009 >
Daily Herald | Traveling Anne Frank exhibit puts face on horror of Holocaust Read More >
December 11, 2009 >
Dani Froelich screens "Life Lessons" at Illinois Holocaust Museum Read More >
December 8, 2009 >
Daily Herald | Student Leadership Days: Muslim leader's tells teens everyone, at some point, is asked to stand up Read More >November 22, 2009 >
Washington Post | Near Chicago, the Holocaust's lessons resonate Read More >
November 19, 2009 >
120 People become US Citizens in Special Naturalization Ceremony at Illinois Holocaust Museum. Read More >
Pioneer Press | New U.S. citizens sworn in at Holocaust Museum Read Now >
Chicago Breaking News | New citizens proud to join America's 'good society' Read Now >
November 11, 2009 >
Loyola Pheonix | Ralph Rehbock tells his story at Loyola University Read More >
November 9, 2009 >
Skokie Review | Kristallnacht ceremony honors 'righteous' Read More >
November 5, 2009 >
Museum to present the traveling exhibition Anne Frank: A History for Today from Dec. 3-Feb. 28, 2010 Read More >October 27, 2009 >
Pioneer Press | Educators study non-Jewish Nazi atrocities Read Now >October 26, 2009 >
Yad Vashem and IHMEC sign cooperation agreement. They commit to a close and cooperative relationship in the areas of education, commemoration, and publications. Read More Now >
October 19, 2009 >
The Northwest Indiana Times features the museum and its available resources for teachers. Read Now >
October 14, 2009 >
Menachem Wecker of the Jewish Press discusses why America needs the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Read Now >September 18, 2009 >
Pioneer Presss | The first traveling exhibition opened at the museum, "Darfur: Photojournalists Respond." Survivors from the Sudanese community provided enlightening and extraordinary testimony about how they survived and how they have come to flourish in a new country as refugees. Read Now >
AUGUST 23, 2009 >
Daily Herald | Skokie Holocaust museum holds conference for law enforcement Read Now >August 18, 2009 >
Voice of America | Illinois Museum Teaches Police Recruits About Holocaust Read Now >Voice of America | Watch Video Coverage of the Program Watch Now >
August 16, 2009 >
Chicago Tribune | A cop course about heart Read Now >
August 13, 2009 >
WBEZ Eight Forty-Eight | Executive Director, Richard S. Hirschhaut explains the "Law Enforcement and Democracy Initiative" Listen Online >
August 14, 2009 >
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center and Anti-Defamation League Launch “Law Enforcement and Democracy Initiative” | Read More Now >July 7, 2009 >
Pioneer Press | Horror of loss subject of Holocaust Museum art gallery Read Now >Pioneer Press | Inaugural Golder Family Community Forum engages large audience on topic of extremism | Read now >
June 30, 2009 >
Pioneer Press | Rwandan hero gets warm welcome at Holocaust Museum Read Now >June 11, 2009 >
IHMEC Responds to Shooting at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Security heightened at the museum.Statement from Executive Director, Richard Hirschhaut | Read now >
Michael Berenbaum responds on the Jewish Daily Forward website | Read now >
June 11, 2009 >
Pioneer Press: Survivor of Holocaust to speak in Kenilworth
Aaron Elster speaks about his childhood experiences in the Holocaust in Kenilworth. Read online now >April 2, 2009 >
Chicago Tribune: Illinois Holocaust Museum: Grand Opening Nears in Skokie
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Gov. Pat Quinn, Holocaust survivors and 2,000 others are expected to attend a sold-out gala Thursday night at the llinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie.Read online now >
May 28, 2009 >
Chicago Tribune: Horror and heroism featured at new Holocaust museum Read Now >may 14, 2009 >
McCormick Freedom Museum Author Series: Thomas Buergenthal, A Lucky ChildListen to the Podcast Online Now >
Thomas Buergenthal spent his childhood in World War II concentration camps. Miraculously, he survived Auschwitz, the death marches and countless close calls, and is still alive to tell his story today.
The Freedom Museum proudly co-hosted this program with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois.
May 6, 2009 >
Chicago ABC: Mayor Daley marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at llinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Read Now >Coverage of the Museum Opening >
May 12, 2009 | Angella Nazarian, Huffington Post: Voice of Hope Read now >April 21, 2009 | Pioneer Press: Holocaust Museum: Seminar guests decry state of genocide reporting Read now >
April 21, 2009 | Art Bistro: Illinois Holocaust Museum Art Galleries Gives History its Due Read now>
April 20, 2009 | The Washington Post: There Will Be Generations, Eboo Patel Read now >
April 20, 2009 | Chicago Tribune: Bill Clinton featured at opening event Read now >
April 19, 2009 | New York Times: Holocaust Museum Lets Local Voices Memorialize Read now >
April 19, 2009 | Chicago Sun-Times: Wiesel, Clinton revisit horrors, while a 'grandma' speaks of love Read now >
April 18, 2009 | Wall Street Journal: Holocaust Survivors' Protest Still Echoes in Illinois Suburb Read now >
April 16, 2009 | WBEZ Radio: A Holocaust Survivor Hands Off Her Story Listen now >
April 16, 2009 | Chicago Tribune: Sunday's opening in Skokie to have powerful message of hope amid the horrors Read now >
April 2, 2009 >
Professor Elie Wiesel to Speak at Public Grand Opening April 19, 2009
Esteemed author, activist and Holocaust survivor to join President Bill Clinton, Senator Richard Durbin, Governor Pat Quinn and several thousand guests for opening of new museum. Read the Press Release Now >March 24, 2009 >
President Bill Clinton to Keynote Grand Opening April 19, 2009
Former U.S. President to join Governor Quinn and thousands of guests as local Holocaust survivors Witness their Dream Revealed for the first time. Read the Press Release Now >March 21, 2009 >
Chicago Tribune recognizes IHMEC tribute to Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese Diplomat during WWII, is one of many rescuers featured in the museum. Richard Salomon helped secure Japanese documents to tell Sugihara's story and impart the lesson that individuals can make a difference in the midst of darkness. Read the article online now >
March 21, 2009 >
North Shore Magazine features Museum's work to celebrate the memories of victims and educate future generations
April 2009 Cover Story: "Out of the Darkness" by Lisa Skolnik Read the article online now >January 2, 2009 >
Chicago Tribune Winter Architecture Preview Cites IHMEC
A winter architecture preview in the Chicago Tribune lists the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, designed by Stanley Tigerman, as one of its top 10 new sites to watch. Read the winter preview online now >December 18, 2008 >
Generation to Generation Hannukah Party Featured in the Deerfield Review
Holocaust survivors and members of HRC continue to preserve Holocaust memory, build lasting relationships, and celebrate traditions. Read the article online now >December 14, 2008 >
Chicago Tribune Features the "Skokie That Was"
Writer Howard Reich, a child of Holocaust survivors, highlights the efforts of Survivors to rebuild their lives in Skokie, the home of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education CenterRead the article online now >
November 11, 2009 >
Museum announces April 19, 2009 Opening
JUF Blog: A first-look at the Illinois Holocaust MuseumChicago Tribune: Holocaust Museum Plans Historic Opening
Chicago Sun Times: Illinois Holocaust Museum to Open April 2009
Daily Herald: New Holocaust Museum Aims to Remember the Past, Transform the Future
Pioneer Press: Holocaust Museum in Skokie set for opening April 19
Naperville Sun: Illinois Holocaust Museum work nears completion
WBBM 780: Illinois' New Holocaust Museum in Skokie (with audio)
Older News >
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Remember KristallnachtIHMEC co-sponsors Holocaust scholar Debórah Dwork at community-wide program honoring the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, The Night of the Broken Glass
New York Times Features Extraordinary Collection Donated to Museum
A stamp collection accumulated by Ken Lawrence is donated to the museum by the Spungen Family Foundation in Illinois.
Preserving death camp helps many to understand the horrors of genocide
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center responds to the Chicago Tribune article about financial concerns at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial sites.
Associate Director of Education, Kelley Szany, Honored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Chicago.
Szany received the Federation’s 2008 Samuel A. Goldsmith Award honoring outstanding “next generation” professionals at Jewish communal organizations. View the acceptance speech online >
Ex-refugees' Shanghai stories: 2 women relive years in Jewish ghetto after families fled Holocaust
Andrew L. Wang of the Chicago Tribune details the stories of two Chicago-area women who fled the Holocaust and found refuge in Shanghai. The womens' stories will now be preserved in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
HRC Launches Generation to Generation Program
The program pairs a young person who is a member of the Holocaust Remembrance Committee with a Holocaust survivor, with the end goal of the young leader learning the story of survival of their pair.
IHMEC Mourns Passing of Rescuer Irena Sendler
IHMEC is Highlighted in The Builder
Building construction is tauted in a construction trade magazine.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Receives Conservation Bookshelf
IHMEC is among the first to receive an essential set of resources from the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf.
IHMEC Mourns Representative Tom Lantos
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center mourns the passing of Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress.
Living History, Past Pain
Article highlighting the Holocaust Remembrance Board in the Daily Herald, July 04, 2007
Holocaust Survivors Gather to Leave Their Mark on the New Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Watch video coverage at CBS 2 News Chicago
State of Illinois Grants Additional $1 million to New Museum
To help ensure that Illinoisans for generations to come remain aware of the lessons of the Holocaust, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced a $1 million grant to support construction of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
Groundbreaking, June 22, 2006, 10:30 a.m.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center broke ground on the new 65,000-square-foot museum. Joined by Governor Rod Blagojevich, Israeli Consul General Barukh Binah, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen and Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, local survivors and project leaders marked the day with solemn remembrance and hopeful celebration.
Skokie, IL