Photo gallery: New Holocaust museum
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is located in Skokie .
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Architect Stanley Tigerman designed the 65,000-square-foot museum at 9603 Woods Drive in Skokie.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Holocaust survivor Sam Harris of Kildeer donated a belt to the Illinois Holocaust Museum that he wore when he lived as child in a nazi concentration camp. He said it was the only thing he owned then.
PHOTO COURTESY OF Illinois Holocaust Museum
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center officially opens to the public at noon on April 19, when a wide array of speakers, dignitaries and musical performances will occur.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is expected to host 250,000 students each year from across the Midwest and Illinois, which mandates curriculum on the Holocaust and other genocides.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Illinois Holocaust Museum docent Judy Shiffman's mother Felicia Munn Brenner, a holocaust survivor, pictured after the war.
Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer
Visitors to the The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie enter on the dark side, where dark walls and sharp angles represent "the descent into darkness."
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center officially opens to the public at noon on April 19, 2009
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
The llinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is located in Skokie.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is expected to host 250,000 students each year from across the Midwest and Illinois, which mandates curriculum on the Holocaust and other genocides.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Holocaust survivor Sam Harris of Kildeer donated a belt to the Illinois Holocaust Museum that he wore when he lived as child in a Nazi concentration camp. He said it was the only thing he owned then.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
A photo of Illinois Holocaust Museum docent Judy Shiffman's mother Felicia Munn Brenner, a holocaust survivor.
Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is expected to host 250,000 students each year from across the Midwest and Illinois, which mandates curriculum on the Holocaust and other genocides.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Visitors to the The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie enter on the dark side, left, where dark walls and sharp angles represent "the descent into darkness", and exit on the light side on the right.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Illinois Holocaust Museum docent Judy Shiffman with a photo of her mother Felicia Munn Brenner, a holocaust survivor.
Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer
Holocaust survivor Cipora Katz experienced despair for most of her early childhood, once hiding in a potato silo in Poland during World War II .
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
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