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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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The Holocaust in The Soviet Union

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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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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Upcoming Events

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Jul

6:30pm CDT

Black Lives Under Nazism: Literary and Visual Sources

Jul

2:30pm CDT

Book & Author: A Blessing, Not a Burden

Jul

2:30pm CDT

Book & Author: Saving Our Survivors: Holocaust Memory, Aid, and American Jewish Response

Aug

7:00pm CDT

Live Performance: PARADE

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Voice of the Museum

Museum Announces Renovations & New Chicago Location

The Museum is temporarily closed to upgrade our facilities. The renovations will modernize the Skokie structure and create a new lobby designed to hold vastly more guests of all ages and abilities, while serving as an engaging orientation to the Museum and its multiple exhibitions. Updates will include a new visitor welcome center, a redesigned… Read More

Responding to Hate with Hope

Dear IHMEC Community: I write to you today with a heavy heart. Yesterday’s tragic attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC—where two lives were senselessly taken—is a devastating reminder of the continued presence of antisemitism and hate in our society. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the entire museum community… Read More

Honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On January 26, we gathered at Illinois Holocaust Museum for a powerful keynote by Tracy Perrelli, Acting Deputy Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State. Reflecting on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Perrelli discussed the importance of Holocaust issues on U.S. foreign policy, and the Department of State… Read More

Joint Statement by Holocaust Museums

The following is a joint statement issued by The Florida Holocaust Museum, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, The Zekelman Holocaust Center, Holocaust Center for Humanity, Holocaust & Humanity Center, and Holocaust Museum L.A. in response to the vandalism at Seattle’s Holocaust Center for… Read More

Museum Condemns Recent Antisemitism on College Campuses

We are concerned about the latest reports of increasing verbal harassment and physical violence targeting Jewish students on college campuses. It is all the more alarming that some of the harassment uses references to the Holocaust. Jewish Americans hold a wealth of political viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities. It is antisemitic to assume that, by being… Read More