
Illinois Holocaust Museum: “We Were Strangers”
“We Were Strangers” is the true story of Magda Preiss, a breathtaking masterpiece of Holocaust literature, composed in her own words upon arriving in America in the 1940s.
“We Were Strangers” is the true story of Magda Preiss, a breathtaking masterpiece of Holocaust literature, composed in her own words upon arriving in America in the 1940s.
The Bielski Partisans bravely achieved the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust and have grown to tens of thousands of descendants around the world.
Watch the film “Complicit” and engage in a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Robert Krakow in conversation with SS St. Louis Passengers, Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener.
The HDEC Announces the 2020 – 2021 Annual Contest Winners!
Attorney, author and activist Benjamin Ferencz, age 102, was the Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case, which the Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial in history.”