This year’s annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day has come and gone. Held each year on January 27, the anniversary of the American liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, it commemorates the lives of the more than six million European Jews — and millions of others, including Romas, LGBTQIA+, and the differently abled — who were victims […]
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s latest special exhibit depicts a fascinating and rarely told story of Jews escaping Nazi persecution by fleeing to China. Twenty-two black-and-white photographs by photojournalist Arthur Rothstein show a harsh existence in the Shanghai ghetto for thousands of Jews during the Second World War. The images offer an interesting […]
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is hosting a groundbreaking new exhibit, Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement, which explores the struggle for LGBTQ rights over the past 50-plus years. The show, which begins on Oct. 17 and runs through May 8, is very much in keeping with the mission of the […]
Fritzie Fritzshall, the president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center and a Holocaust survivor, has died at 91, the museum announced on Sunday. “Fritzie Fritzshall devoted her life to combatting hatred and prejudice, inspiring people to become Upstanders instead of bystanders, and speaking out to make our world a better place,” the museum […]
He was born in South Africa in 1918. He died at the age of 95. And in between, he served 27 years in prison for treason, emancipated his country from white minority rule, and eventually governed as its first Black president. His name was Nelson Mandela, and he was a revolutionary. Even seven years after […]
Katie Kadan, a finalist on NBC’s The Voice, was the featured performer at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Virtual Soireé on September 2. She was joined on ‘stage’ by the event’s emcee, Chicago Tribune social columnist Candace Jordan. The Soireé is the Women Leadership Committee’s (WLC) signature fundraising event – but this year […]
According to The Anti-Defamation League, “[…] the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record […].” As we witness this disturbing trend, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is playing a vital role in educating the public and combating hatred and prejudice in all […]
Chicago is home to some of the greatest museums and cultural institutions in the world. Ready to start exploring? Whatever your interest, there’s a place on this list guaranteed to open your mind and engage your senses. The Big 10 Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 312-922-9410 Housing over 40 million artifacts, the museum […]
Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. is set to make its world premiere at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie. The new exhibition explores the journey and fight of survivors of the Holocaust and past genocides that have taken place around the world, including in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, South Sudan, and […]
On March 7, the Illinois Holocaust Museum hosted its 2018 Humanitarian Awards Dinner to honor Mitchell Feiger and Pamela L. Netzky, who received the Humanitarian Award, and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, which received the Distinguished Community Leadership Award. The keynote presentation featured a conversation between Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and […]
