The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a project of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois. Founded by Holocaust survivors more than 25 years ago, the organization is dedicated to teaching about the Holocaust and the dangers of unchallenged hate.
The organization has taught school and community groups through its small storefront museum and speakers’ bureau since 1981. Each year, our speakers reach approximately 30,000 students at the Skokie facility and through survivor visits to Midwest schools and community groups.
The organization’s mission is furthered by the dedicated survivors, community members and young people who are creating the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to present these lessons to far greater numbers. The new facility will serve an estimated quarter million school children annually.
As the generation of survivors ages, it is ever more important that their stories be heard, respected, and preserved.
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