Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center / New Museum / Project Leadersjip

Why Build a New Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Capital Campaign

Naming Opportunities

Building Design

Visitor Experience

Project Leadership

Campaign Leadership

J.B. Pritzker, Museum Campaign Chair

Managing Partner, The Pritzker Group
Partner, New World Ventures
Former Chairman, Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sam Harris, Board President

Holocaust Survivor
Retired Insurance Executive
2005 Governor’s Human Rights Commission Award Recipient
Author, Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust

Richard Hirschhaut, Project and Executive Director

Former Midwest Director, Anti-Defamation League
2003 City Chicago Human Relations Award Recipient
Founding Member, Governor’s Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes

Stanley Tigerman, Building Architect

Recipient of numerous international, national and regional awards
Author of five books
Member, Interior Design Hall of Fame

Michael Berenbaum, Interior and Exhibit Co-Designer

Project Director, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Former CEO, Survivors of the Shoah Visual history Foundation
Author of twelve books

Yitzchak Mais, Interior and Exhibit Co-Designer

Former Director of Historical Museum, Yad Vashem, Israel’s National Holocaust Museum
Chief Curator and Project Director, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Curator, Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation