Category: Current

Make a Difference! The Harvey L. Miller Family Youth Exhibition is a highly interactive space where hands-on activities for kids ages 8-12 foster leadership skills, empathy, self-esteem, and positive decision-making. This exhibition uses the tenets of character education – trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship – to help visitors learn what they can do… Read More

Meet Virtual Holocaust Survivors Imagine sitting in a theater listening to Auschwitz survivor Fritzie Fritzshall as she recounts her harrowing story of the Holocaust, in which she, as a 13-year-old, was ripped from her home and transported to the notorious concentration camp where most of her family was murdered. Imagine asking her questions about life… Read More

Virtual reality technology is not recommended for children under age 12. Tickets are required for entry – be prepared to show your ticket either on your phone or with a printed copy. We strongly recommend making reservations online before you arrive at the Museum, as seating is limited and may sell out. Virtual reality experiences… Read More

The Zev & Shifra Karkomi Holocaust Exhibition explores pre-war European life, the rise of Nazism, the Holocaust, and the post-war experiences of Survivors as they resettled in Skokie, Illinois. More than 500 artifacts, documents, photographs, and a German rail car of the type used in Nazi deportations are on display. Survivor stories woven throughout the… Read More

Voices of Genocide explores how and why genocide continues to occur across geography and time. Learn from survivors and descendants of genocides in Armenia, Guatemala, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Burma about the common conditions and warning signs that can lead to genocide and how recognizing these factors helps determine efforts toward intervention and prevention. The average… Read More

Shtetl in the Sun celebrates the work of Andy Sweet, a dynamic young photographer in the late 1970s, and his images of Jewish life in South Beach, Florida. In the late 1970s, more than 20,000 elderly Jews, many of them New York transplants and Holocaust Survivors, called South Beach home. This area of barely two… Read More

In 1942, in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066. The law ordered the forced imprisonment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the United States, which at the time had the second largest population of Japanese people living outside… Read More