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IHMEC Mourns Passing of Rescuer Irena Sendler

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a courageous and unsung hero who risked her life to save approximately 2,500 children during the Holocaust through her work with Zegota, a unit of the Polish underground established specifically to help Jews in hiding.

IHMEC is Highlighted in The Builder

Building construction tauted in trade magazine.

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Receives Conservation Bookshelf

IHMEC is among the first to receive an essential set of resources from the IMLS
Connecting to Collections Bookshelf.

IHMEC Mourns Representative Tom Lantos

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center mourns the passing of Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress. 

Living History, Past Pain

Article highlighting the Holocaust Remembrance Board in the Daily Herald, July 04, 2007

Holocaust Survivors Gather to Leave Their Mark on the New Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Watch video coverage at CBS 2 News Chicago

War vet captured horror and hope:

Featured Article in Chicago Tribune, March 29, 2007

Highland Park School Donates Darfur Paperdolls to Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

The number one strategy right now to sow the seeds against the genocide is to raise awareness.  The smallest gestures can have the greatest significance and inspire larger movements.  It is the first, critical step to affecting change.  The 8th grade class at Elm Place Middle School in Highland Park have collected 70,000 paper dolls representing each individual life lost due to the genocide in the region, which since 2003 has totaled 400,000 lives.

IHMEC Comments on Elie Wiesel's Recent Attack

State of Illinois Grants Additional $1 million to New Museum
To help ensure that Illinoisans for generations to come remain aware of the lessons of the Holocaust, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced a $1 million grant to support construction of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.  Read More

Groundbreaking, June 22, 2006, 10:30 a.m.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center broke ground on the new 65,000-square-foot museum. Joined by Governor Rod Blagojevich, Israeli Consul General Barukh Binah, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen and Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, local survivors and project leaders marked the day with solemn remembrance and hopeful celebration.  Read more

Genocide in Darfur

Since early 2003, over 400,000 civilians have died and well over 2.5 million have been driven from their homes in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. Over 500 people die each day from violence, malnutrition and disease.

Plan B

In May 2007, the White House announced the long-awaited implementation of U.S. Plan B sanctions against Sudan, designed to help compel the government in Khartoum to bring an end to the violence.  This plan contains three measures intended to change the calculations of the regime in Khartoum and unyielding rebel leaders:

• The U.S. will add 31 Sudanese  companies to a list of 130 that are already denied access to the U.S. financial system
• The U.S. will freeze the assets of three of the many individuals responsible for the violence in Darfur. 
• Finally, the U.S. will seek a resolution in the United Nations Security Council to impose target sanctions on individuals and expand an ineffective arms embargo that continues to be violated without consequence. 

Learn more about Plan B and the ongoing conflict in Darfur
Learn what you can do to help

Read the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois' resolution against the Genocide in Darfur

Join the Armenian National Committee in their online Campaign:

Click for Justice

The goal is to have over 100,000 people to urge their representatives to adopt the Armenian Genocide resolutions as well as legislation aimed at curbing the ongoing genocide in Darfur that is currently introduced in the US House and US Senate. 

Learn More about the Armenian Genocide Resolution