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WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest...

The USC Shoah Foundation and The National Library of Israel announce Hebrew translations of their survivor testimony archive.

Skokie, IL, May 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the situation worsened in Nazi Germany, parents were faced with a difficult decision: send their children alone to a foreign land in the hopes of...

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In Hitler’s Germany, the efficiency of the Nazi extermination machine was refined with the help of physicians. Are there any parallels in today’s...

Skokie, 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...

Skokie, IL, Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Launched in the lead-up to the 81st anniversary of the Babiy Yar massacre, Illinois Holocaust Museum has created a new online experience sharing the...

NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Deborah E. Lipstadt, explains in her Foreword to Joshua M. Greene's Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's...

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After reaching number one, bestseller status on Amazon, Joshua M. Greene's Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and...

Skokie, Ill., June 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a Survivor of the Holocaust and the President of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Fritzie Fritzshall devoted her life to...

Saint Petersburg, Florida, May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Early this morning, The Florida Holocaust Museum learned it had been targeted by antisemitic vandals who painted swastikas upon its walls...