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Holocaust Museum: Defense Secretary Gates weighs in on Iranian threat
Former Secretary of State Robert Gates’ assessment of the threat posed by Iran and the current state of the Middle East came with no sugar coating. “The sad reality is that in any era, there are always those who seek through violence and crimes against …
Holocaust Museum: Voices of veterans drive exhibit
It may be more instructive to begin with what you will not find in the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s traveling exhibition about Jewish World War II veterans. Although packed with photos, newsreel footage, uniforms, weapons and artillery, maps and so many other artifacts, …
Museum sought World War II exhibit years ago
When Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center leaders first wanted to bring “Ours To Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War” to Skokie, there were a couple of challenges. There was no museum here yet. And the exhibition was not made for a …
Holocaust Museum: Landmark play asks big moral questions
“It is not only Ernst Janning that is put on trial here. It is the German people.” So says the young attorney defending four German judges during one of the tribunals in Nuremberg following the collapse of the Nazi regime. Adapted from the well-known and …
Graphic novel art reawakens survivor stories
Their stories are told in a variety of ways — through old photographs and film, eyewitness testimony and meticulously installed summary panels, an upper floor art gallery and a lower floor space for traveling exhibitions. The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center feels like a …
Being a survivor examined through the arts
The three women never met each other nor would that even be possible. One is fictional, the subject of a well-received play by the award-winning Lookingglass Theatre; the second appears in a moving and painful documentary about a son’s search for his mother’s past; and …
Cancer survivor uses handbag art to heal
As a survivor herself, and as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors, Yali Derman makes art to heal. Sales from her colorfully-designed handbags — Yali Carry On bags — benefit KIDSS for KIDS, a foundation that supports Child and Family Services at Children’s Memorial Hospital …
Holocaust Museum opens ‘Woman’ exhibit
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s newest traveling exhibition, “Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust,” opened Friday. “Spots of Light” examines the role of women in the Holocaust, telling the human-level stories below the well-know accounts of the catastrophe. Here …
New museum exhibition highlights women in the Holocaust
In documenting the Warsaw Ghetto, historian Emanuel Ringelblum made special mention of how women responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. “The future historian will have to dedicate an appropriate page to the Jewish woman in the war,” he said. “She will take up an …
Documentary reunites Hungarian Holocaust survivors
The three women who appeared on stage Sunday have known each other for at least 65 years, a friendship born from shared horrors that no one who didn’t live through them could possibly fully grasp. But Erzsebet Szemes, Eva Fahidi and Magda Brown understand the …
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Civil rights giant stays determined to get in the way
The former “Freedom Rider” and the last living civil rights leader who spoke at the historic March on Washington rally more than 47 years ago still believes in “getting in the way” to fight injustice in the world. That’s how U.S. Congressman John Lewis says …
Holocaust survivors gather for service
On Sunday, the 66th annual collective Holocaust Memorial Observance was held at Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Syna. The event was sponsored by She’erit HaPleitah of Metropolitan Chicago, the umbrella organization for Chicago-area Holocaust survivor groups, and is considered the largest gathering of Holocaust survivors in …
Community: Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies scheduled
The 66th annual collective Holocaust Memorial Observance will be held at 1:30p.m. Sunday at Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue, 8825 East Prairie Road. The gathering, sponsored by She'erit HaPleitah of Metropolitan Chicago, the umbrella organization for Chicago-area Holocaust survivor groups, is considered the largest gathering …
Glencoe police investigate swastikas on traffic signs
Glencoe Police are looking into swastikas found spray-painted Saturday on three signs in the village. "We're investigating right now, and we have to look into it as a possible hate crime," Deputy Police Chief Al Kebby said Tuesday, though he isn't ruling out misguided mischief …
Ambitious programming fulfills IHMEC mission
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center turns two years old next month, having opened during the same month designated as Genocide Awareness Month and on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After two years, the museum and education facility continues to fulfill its mission.
Holocaust Museum: Events scheduled to augment new exhibit
"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow," the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center's latest traveling exhibition, runs through the end of May. Augmenting the exhibition examining the story of Jewish scholars who fled from Nazi Germany and found teaching positions at historically black colleges and universities …
