Mere hyperbole? No. Shoah does not include any black & white newsreels. It does not feature dramatizations, vintage photographs, or even documents from the period. It does something much more brilliant to convey the enormity of the Holocaust: using only interviews with survivors and contemporary footage of the locations in question, it creates a portrait of these unfathomable events entirely in the audience's mind, a place where it can remain permanently. It's a colossal achievement entirely without equal in the world of documentary filmmaking. more ›

The Illinois Holocaust Museum is nearing completion and has been scheduled to open on April 19, 2009. At 65,000 square-foot, the museum will be the largest of its kind in the Midwest. Officials also say it's likely to be one of the last such museums made in conjunction with Holocaust survivors. J. B. Pritzker, campaign chair for the Museum, said, "This building is a testament to Holocaust survivors who settled in Illinois and their understanding that we must teach future generations the lessons of the Holocaust."

Artifacts include the original volume of the Nuremberg trial transcripts, nearly 2,000 testimonies of Midwest Holocaust survivors and a German rail car of the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport millions of Jews to concentration camps.