The village’s determination to block the Nazi demonstration was so intense that it had the effect of turning the Skokie case into a landmark example of the vitality of the First Amendment, as well as ...

He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case. By Richard Sandomir When a band of Nazis proposed to ...

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Ben Stern was separated from his family in his native Poland and narrowly escaped the horrors of the Holocaust before settling in the Chicago area, where in the late 1970s he led the fight against a ...

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Reinhold Kulle was the popular chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School for more than 20 years. But he had a secret life which began to unravel when Kulle became a target of the U.S.

SKOKIE, Ill. (WLS) -- There are just 2,300 Holocaust left in Illinois who can share their stories, and two of them spoke at the Illinois Holocaust Museum Friday to mark International Holocaust ...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie will undergo a renovation beginning this July. Driving the news: ...

The survivor of two death marches often signed his name with 129592, the concentration camp number tattooed on his arm. (J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California via JTA) — Ben Stern, who ...