Beyond Our Walls: Illinois Holocaust Museum Makes Holocaust Survivor Stories Available in Home VR for the First TimeFor the first time, three acclaimed VR films can be experienced on consumer headsets—making first-person Holocaust testimony accessible beyond the Museum’s walls and across generations and borders.
Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360, a Downtown Chicago Satellite Location Opening on August 26Chicago, IL, Aug. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center announced today that they will open a satellite museum Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360 on August 26 in the heart of downtown Chicago at 360 N. State St. Launching as the Skokie Museum undergoes renovations, the new location ensures the Museum’s vital mission continues at a time when rising antisemitism and hatred make Holocaust and genocide education more urgent than ever.
Exhibit explores the enduring effects of incarceration camps as told from third-generation Japanese AmericansIllinois Holocaust Museum’s special exhibition, Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy, will run from December 15, 2024 – June 1, 2025.
Learn About the Heroic Rescue Effort that Saved Thousands of Children During the HolocaustIllinois Holocaust Museum’s special exhibition, Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, will run from May 19 – November 17, 2024.
Illinois Holocaust Museum Announces New Voices of Genocide ExhibitionOpening May 1, the exhibition explores how and why genocide continues to occur across geography and time through the testimonies of survivors and descendants of genocides in Armenia, Guatemala, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Burma.
Explore the History of Jewish Delis in America at Illinois Holocaust MuseumThe newest special exhibition, “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli, will run from October 22, 2023-April 14, 2024.
Illinois Holocaust Museum Debuts Three New Virtual Reality Films in its Ground-Breaking VR GallerySkokie, July 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is thrilled to announce the debut of three new virtual reality films in its groundbreaking Richard and Jill Chaifetz Family Virtual Reality Gallery, The Journey Back: A VR Experience. Created by the Museum and the award-winning production company East City Films, the films use virtual reality to share lesser-known, “hidden” stories of the Holocaust while reimagining how three young girls survived. Debuting in August, audiences accompany Rodi Glass, Marion Deichmann, and Doris Fogel as they revisit their lives before the devastation, during the Holocaust, and the new paths they created in its wake.
Join the Search for a Missing Holocaust Survivor at Illinois Holocaust MuseumThe latest special exhibition, The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto, will run from May 18-September 24, 2023
Travel Back in Time with “The Negro Motorist Green Book” Exhibition at The Illinois Holocaust MuseumThe exhibition reveals how the handbook provided African American travelers with information on restaurants, gas stations, department stores and other businesses that welcomed them during the era of Jim Crow, including here in Chicago.
