Holocaust Museum: Events scheduled to augment new exhibit

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Updated: May 3, 2011 1:42PM

"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow," the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center's latest traveling exhibition, runs through the end of May.

Augmenting the exhibition examining the story of Jewish scholars who fled from Nazi Germany and found teaching positions at historically black colleges and universities are a series of special events.

Most of the events are free with museum admission. The following include events scheduled for the next several months at the museum including a few that are not directly related to the exhibit.

* 2 p.m. Sunday: "Racial Laws: Nuremberg and Jim Crow" includes a conversation with Holocaust historian Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Mary Lee Webeck, director of education of the Holocaust Museum Houston. Reservations are required.

* 1:30 to 3 p.m. March 6: "An Afternoon With the Family" includes storytelling and art activities with educator Nancy Shapiro-Pikelny. The event is suggested for young people ages 6 to 10 accompanied by family members. Activity fee is $5.

* 6:30 p.m. March 10: "Fighting For Darfur: Public Action & the Struggle to Stop Genocide" will feature human rights activist and Washington Post special correspondent Rebecca Hamilton. Reservations are required.

* 1:30 p.m. March 13: "Film and Conversation With Gwendolyn Dubose Rogers" will first features the film "From Swastika to Jim Crow" followed by a conversation with one of the students taught and inspired by a Jewish professor at Talladega College. The conversation will be moderated by Chicago Sun-Times columnist and ABC 7 political analyst Laura Washington. Reservations are required.

* 6:30 p.m. March 17: "National Jewish Book Award" will feature Dr. Elliot Lefkovitz of Loyola University and Spertus Institute leading a discussion on Christopher Browning's "Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp," a 2010 National Jewish Book Award winner. Reservations are recommended.

* 1:30 p.m. April 10: "Book and Author Discussion" will feature Professor Wendy A. Sarti discussing "Women + Nazis: Perpetrators of Genocide and Other Crimes During Hitler's Regime, 1933-1945." Reservations are recommended.

"Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" was created and is circulated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The IHMEC exhibition is made possible through major funding from the Leon Levy Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Helen Bader Foundation; The Lupin Foundation; The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Alpern Family Foundation; and the Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation.

The museum, located at 9603 Woods Drive in Skokie, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.

For more information about the exhibition or special events, call (847) 967-4889 or visit www.ilholocaustmuseum.org.

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