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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:59 |
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will open April 19, 2009, in Skokie, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. The date coincides with the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest revolt by Jewish prisoners against the Nazis during the Holocaust. The largest museum of its kind in the Midwest, the 65,000-square-foot facility will include an orientation film, audio testimony of Chicago-area Holocaust survivors and more than 500 artifacts, documents and photographs. The largest artifact will be a wooden, German-made train car of the type used to transport thousands of Jews to concentration camps during World War II. Other exhibits will focus on the neo-Nazi conflict in Skokie in 1977 and genocide around the world. A youth exhibition for ages 8-11 will examine issues like bullying, name-calling, prejudice and hate crimes. (847-491-0905, www.ilholocaustmuseum.org)
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