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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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Join us as Professor Sarah Casteel shares a little-known chapter of World War II. Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, Black writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich.
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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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