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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

The Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Holocaust by honoring the memories of those who were lost and by teaching universal lessons that combat hatred, prejudice and indifference.

The Holocaust

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem

Complicity

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

International Response

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Remembrance

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

Resistance

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Survival

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

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