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Join us at Navy Pier!
In Our Voices: Stories of Survival & Resilience
People's Energy Welcome Pavilion at Navy Pier
600 E Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

June 8, 6:30 pm | Pre-Program Reception at 6:00 pm

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Navy Pier invite you to an insightful evening of discussion and storytelling from descendants and survivors of genocides in Armenia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Participants will include:
  • Ida Sefer Roache, a survivor of the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and President of Bosnian American Genocide Institute
  • Mark Akgulian, a third-Generation descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors
  • Immaculee Mukantaganira, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda and Founder and President of Global Survivors for Peace, Inc.
  • Kelley Szany (Moderator), Vice President of Education & Exhibitions at Illinois Holocaust Museum and Co-Chair, Illinois Holocaust & Genocide Commission
The conversation will take place right beside our Stories of Survival exhibition, currently on display at Navy Pier, and illuminate life in the aftermath of these atrocities with the speakers’ personal experiences and key lessons for today and beyond.

Prior to the program, Illinois Holocaust Museum will announce the student winners of the inaugural Fritzie’s Promise award, in memory of Holocaust Survivor and Museum President Fritzie Fritzshall.
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Supported by Women’s Leadership Committee and Young Professional Committee of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center and the Navy Pier Associate Board.

Illinois Holocaust Museum's presentation of Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. at Navy Pier and exhibition-related programming is made possible with generous support from:
More Upcoming Programs
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Online & On-Site Program
Storytelling With OUTspoken
May 5, 6:30 pm (CDT)


Don't miss the last exhibition-related program for Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement! Leaders in Chicago's LGBTQ+ community will share their personal journeys in an evening of live storytelling.

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Community Partners: 2nd Story; Center on Halsted; The Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame; Evanston Public Library; Equality Illinois; The Legacy Project; Making Gay History; Or Chadash of Temple Sholom of Chicago
Online Program
Coffee With A Survivor: Agi Day
May 11, 2:00 pm (CDT)


Holocaust Survivor Agi Day was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1940. Her family, being Jewish, fled to Hungary when she was a baby. During the last nine months of World War II, she was hidden by a Catholic family who passed her off as a "cousin from the countryside." Join us with Holocaust Center for Humanity to hear Agi share her story.

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Online Program
Book & Author: The Ratline
May 19, Noon (CDT)


Join us for a virtual discussion with Philippe Sands, Baillie Gifford Prize-winning author of The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive. Based on Sands’ successful BBC Radio Podcast, The Ratline delves into the life and mysterious death of Otto von Wächter – a devoted Nazi turned man on the run.

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Community Partners: Congregation Or Torah; Consulate General of Argentina in Chicago; Evanston Public Library
On-Site Program
Film Premiere: Speer Goes to Hollywood
May 22, 1:00 pm


Albert Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect. And yet, even now, he has the reputation of being the “good Nazi” – a myth he constructed himself. Gather with us at the Museum for the premiere screening of multi-award-winning film, Speer Goes to Hollywood, followed by a Q&A with the director and post-screening reception.

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Community Partners: Illinois Film Office; DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts
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New Survivor Profile
A black-and-white photo of Holocaust Survivor Ernie Heimann placed beside a graphic representation of a quote (also from Ernie). Ernie is half-smiling at the camera and wearing thin frame glasses. He has white hair and a mustache. He's wearing a tweed blazer, a white collar shirt, and a striped tie. His quote reads: "There is no denying what has happened. And we should learn from history and not repeat history. And because of that, if we learn from our history, we should make progress - maybe more slowly than is what would be desired, but we should make progress forwards, not to go backwards again."
When he was only 9 years old, Holocaust Survivor Ernie Heimann’s school was destroyed on "Kristallnacht." A few months later, Ernie escaped on a Kindertransport to England. But with the beginning of the blitz and bombings in London, Ernie was forced to escape once more to the English countryside. See Ernie's Survivor Profile to access first-hand accounts of his resilience and survival.

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CLOSING THIS SUNDAY, MAY 8
Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement
Rise Up explores the June 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn as the flashpoint that ignited the modern gay rights movement in the United States. In the fifty years since the Stonewall Uprising, America’s LGBTQ+ population has struggled for equal rights and representation under the law. Rise Up shares the voices and tells the stories of this movement.

Now is your last chance to explore this fascinating exhibition and its lessons that resonate today.

"Rise Up isn’t about just telling us what has already happened, it’s also about inspiring others to get involved and help move society further forward." – Paul M. Banks, ChicagoNow
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Illinois Holocaust Museum's presentation of Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement and exhibition-related programming is made possible with generous support from:
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Smithsonian Exhibition: The Bias Inside Us
Through May 8 at Evanston Public Library


The Bias Inside Us unpacks and demystifies the concept of bias. Visitors explore the foundational blocks of bias, the psychology of how it forms, and how it influences behaviors - both consciously and unconsciously.

Interactive elements illustrate how both implicit and explicit bias shows up in the world, and how bias influences systems and policies that have consequences for many people and communities. Among the videos in the exhibition is a series that features voices from diverse perspectives that share personal experiences with bias.

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May is Jewish American Heritage Month!

We are proud to join the Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History and more than 120 organizations across the U.S. to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month and the many contributions Jewish Americans have made in our country.

Check out the Weitzman Museum's Jewish American Heritage Month portal for a range of curated information about extraordinary Jewish individuals throughout history, cultural and educational resources, family history, understanding and fighting antisemitism, and more ways to engage and learn.
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