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Exhibitions
Speak Truth To Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER A Chicagoland Debut February 4 – June 24, 2018 Kerry Kennedy spent several years interviewing human rights defenders from around the world for the book Speak Truth to Power. The project has since grown into a multi-faceted campaign for advocacy. Experience the Midwest debut of the photographic exhibit that highlights over 40 human… Read More
BESA: A Code Of Honor
This exhibition features images by American photographer Norman Gershman of Muslim Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Albania was the only country with more Jews at the end of WWII than beforehand, as Albanians saved their neighbors and those who took refuge in their country. These remarkable acts were grounded in Besa, a code of… Read More
Bill Graham And The Rock & Roll Revolution
Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution presents the life and times of rock & roll’s greatest promoter, Bill Graham. Take an electrifying trip through the 1960s-1980s and learn about the extraordinary life and career of Bill Graham, the Holocaust refugee who launched the careers of countless music legends like The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix,… Read More
Operation Finale: The Capture And Trial Of Adolf Eichmann
The dramatic story behind one of the world’s most notorious escaped Nazi war criminals being brought to justice is told using recently declassified artifacts from the Mossad, Israel’s Secret Intelligence Service. This is the first time this exhibition has ever left the State of Israel and the first exhibition in the United States to fully document… Read More
Women Hold Up Half The Sky
Co-Presented by Illinois Holocaust Museum and YWCA Evanston/North Shore Women Hold Up Half the Sky identifies one of the central moral challenges of the 21st century – full equality for the world’s women. It is inspired by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Pulitzer-prize winning authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl… Read More
Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits Of Jews In Wartime Amsterdam By Annemie Wolff
Annemie Wolff, also known as Annemie Wolff-Koller (1906 Laufen, Germany – 2 February 1994 Amsterdam), was a German-Dutch photographer. Her 1943 photos of Jewish and non-Jewish children and adults, taken in Amsterdam, were rediscovered in 2008 by Dutch photo historian Simon Kool. About 3000 photos were taken of 440 persons, and about 300 of the subjects have been identified by now…. Read More
Three Years, Eight Months, And Twenty Days: The Cambodian Atrocities And The Search For Justice
For three years, eight months, and twenty days, the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot ruled Cambodia. They enacted a program of harsh internment, torture, and subjection of the Cambodia people to inhumane living conditions, starvation, forced labor, forced marriage, and execution. Nearly one fourth of the Cambodian population was murdered. Created in partnership… Read More
What We Carried: Stories By Iraqi Refugees
What We Carried: Stories by Iraqi Refugees is photographic exhibition that explores the possessions that recent Iraqi refugees cherished enough to bring on their journey to the United States. The featured objects, photographed by award-winning Portland-based photographer Jim Lommasson, range from family photos to a Qur’an, from jewelry to a game of dominos. Refugees wrote their… Read More
Nazi Olympics: Berlin, 1936
Would you let issues of ethics impact your participation in sports? During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler exploited the Games to promote Nazi ideals of racial supremacy on a world stage. Nazi Olympics features athletes who were barred because of their ethnic heritage, or who, like Jesse Owens, competed and won, challenging Hitler’s “master race” dogma.
Light & Noir: Exiles And Émigrés In Hollywood, 1933-1950
Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 tells the fascinating story of immigration, acculturation, and innovation that influenced Hollywood film as an American cultural phenomenon. After coming to power in early 1933, Hitler took control of the German film industry and used cinema to fuel his propaganda. As a result, many German-speaking film icons fled… Read More