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We are seeking Visitor Services Volunteers for our new satellite location at 360 N. State Street in downtown Chicago. If you are passionate about our mission—Remember the Past, Transform the Future— enjoy interacting with the public, and want to help create a welcoming, meaningful experience for every guest, we’d love to work with you. Visitor Services Volunteers will have the opportunity to help facilitate our award-winning virtual reality experience, The Journey Back, our interactive survivor testimonies in the Holographic Theater, engage with and direct visitors, and more. Apply Today! Applications are open and will be accepted on a rolling basis. Bilingual volunteers are especially encouraged to apply.

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Education is key to learning from the lessons of the Holocaust and confronting antisemitism.

Survivor Profiles: Sam Harris

Samuel R. Harris (born Szlamek Rzeznik) is one of the youngest Survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Born in 1935 in Deblin, Poland, he was just four years old when the Nazis occupied Poland. Sam and his seven siblings and parents were forced to move into the ghetto. Read more of Sam’s story>>

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