Learn About the Heroic Rescue Effort that Saved Thousands of Children During the Holocaust
May 09, 2024 11:30 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, May 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the situation worsened in Nazi Germany, parents were faced with a difficult decision: send their children alone to a foreign land in the hopes of...
Illinois Holocaust Museum Announces New Voices of Genocide Exhibition
April 18, 2024 11:00 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, April 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is proud to announce the creation of a groundbreaking core exhibition, Spagat Family Voices of...
Join the Search for a Missing Holocaust Survivor at Illinois Holocaust Museum
May 03, 2023 10:30 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, May 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In 1945, a diary was found in the ashes of a destroyed crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl named Rywka Lipszyc and...
Travel Back in Time with “The Negro Motorist Green Book” Exhibition at The Illinois Holocaust Museum
January 12, 2023 10:00 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Negro Motorist Green Book, an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with...
Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Exhibit Debuts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27, 2022 19:45 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, Jan. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Journey Back: A VR Experience, a groundbreaking virtual reality exhibit transforming Holocaust education and remembrance, is now open to the public...
World Mourns Auschwitz Survivor and Innovator in Holocaust Education
June 20, 2021 12:07 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, Ill., June 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a Survivor of the Holocaust and the President of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Fritzie Fritzshall devoted her life to...
Illinois Holocaust Museum Opens its First Exhibition on Slavery:'Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865'February 10 - August 25, 2019
February 07, 2019 15:11 ET
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, Feb. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purchased Lives, curated by The Historic New Orleans Collection, reveals slavery’s machinations and widespread persistence in America, long after the...