We are thankful to our friends in the media who help us share our message with the greater community. Links to media coverage can be found below. For media inquiries, please email media ilhmec. View Online. While sadly getting smaller every year, the 9th Congressional District of Illinois has one of the largest concentrations of Holocaust survivors in the country.
Skokie, a village in my district, is home to the Illinois Holocaust Museum, a 65, square foot facility dedicated to the preservation of history and the education of future generations. Two Holocaust survivors are taking Sierra Vista Public Library patrons on an immersive experience through their Holocaust stories, walking people through their idyllic childhoods in Europe and their experience of starvation and survival in Nazi concentration camps.
June 24, CBS Chicago year-old boy, year-old Holocaust survivor strike up friendship as museum volunteers Janine and Dhilan come from very different worlds and generationsβbut know in their hearts that friendship has no limit.
Janine is 98 years old and comes from Lvov, Poland. Dhilan is 13, and comes from Barrington, Illinois. It began back in World War II when a Japanese diplomat risked everything to save the lives of thousands of Jewish people. Fast forward to , when here in Chicago, his relatives met people who are alive today because of his courage. A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, is exploring the role delis have played in Jewish culture and history.
In America, many delis were founded by Holocaust survivors. Over the weekend, which marked 79 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the museum highlighted much of that work. Beginning in December , this initiative will be anchored in a series of programs focused on helping the Chicagoland community identify and address antisemitism head-on. Tammy Duckworth. August 7, ABC Chicago Holocaust survivor tells story through virtual reality at Skokie museum Marion Deichmann, 90, has spent most of her life repressing her memories of the Holocaust.
