International Holocaust Remembrance Day is next week, and Chicagoans have a new and unique way to learn.
We’re here at the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s new Experience360 location downtown.
“This does not just tell us the history of the past. We are here to also bridge that history to our current world.”
Museum CEO Bernard Cherkasov says the facility does that in a variety of ways, including photos, artifacts, videos…even holograms that allow visitors to speak with Holocaust survivors.
“Fritzy said ‘despite everything I have lived through and everything I have witnessed, I did not live my life in fear or anger or shame.”
Among the elected leaders touring the new museum, Alderman Deborah Silverstein.
“I’ve been educated and I’m just trying to get the message out. We live in scary times and we cannot forget the Holocaust.”