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A black-and-white photo showing a city street filled with rubble. In the foreground, three Jewish men in dark coats and hats stand facing a fourth man, a German police officer in a military-type uniform, on the right. He is looking at identification papers.

The U.S. and the Holocaust

by Deanna Isaacs September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Starting Sunday, for three consecutive nights, WTTW will air a new six-hour Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Burns and his filmmaking partners, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, based the series on a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit curated by Chicago-area native and current Newberry Library president, Daniel Greene. From 2014 […]

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Chicago-area Holocaust survivors speak out against immigration ban

by Aimee Levitt February 2, 2017August 18, 2021

Eighteen survivors came to Skokie’s Illinois Holocaust Museum Thursday to express solidarity with the refugees and nationals of seven primarily-Muslim countries who have been forbidden entry into the U.S.