Holocaust Memorial Committee
May 7 at 7:00 pm. Peoria Riverfront Museum. 222 SW Washington, Peoria, IL Guest speaker: Holocaust Survivor Ida Paluch Kersz Ida was born in Poland in May 1938, months before Germany invaded Poland. In the summer of 1942, with deportation imminent, her family tragically came apart, but Ida was given a new life, her Jewish […]
The Peoria Holocaust Memorial, located at the Peoria Riverfront Museum at 222 SW Washington St., Peoria IL , is a unique remembrance of the tragedy of the Holocaust. Six million buttons represent the Jews killed by the Nazi regime, and 5 million additional buttons symbolize the other “enemies of the state” murdered: homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies), […]
A poet once remarked that the death of a child is the loss of infinite possibilities. What, then, can be said about the more than one-and-a-half million Jewish children who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust years (1933-1945)? Of course, many more boys and girls suffered unimaginable hardships and bore witness to the […]
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped with the Holocaust Memorial over the years. it took many dedicated volunteers to sort and wash the buttons, to fill the structures. to design and build them; the list is long and the number of hours and people who helped us is […]
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