Title | Date | Summary | Source | Tags |
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Camera may eye statue | 1987-06-27 | The village is considering installing a security system that would set off warning lights at the police department when a person stepped too close to the new Holocaust Memorial Monument. The monument was vandalized hours after it was unveiled. | Life - Skokie edition (Weekend edition), Saturday, June 27, 1987, Sec. 1, p. 1 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Crime prevention, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Memorials, tributes, and remembrances, Crime and criminals - Vandalism |
Date set for Holocaust monument unveiling | 1987-04-30 | The Holocaust Monument Committee has announced that the Holocaust Memorial Monument will be unveiled on May 31. The sculpture will stand on the village green between Skokie Village Hall and Skokie Public Library. | Skokie Review, Thursday, April 30, 1987, p. 4 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust Monument Committee, Memorials, tributes, and remembrances |
Donated painting captures Holocaust sculpture | 2015-11-12 | None | Skokie Review, Thursday, November 12, 2015, p.8 | Chesney, Edward, Kornick, Fread, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Gast, Bert J., Latala, Michael, Van Dusen, George, Courage |
Emotional impact lingers | 1987-06-06 | Lerner-Life Community Newspapers is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits who vandalized the Holocaust Memorial Monument in Skokie. | Life - Skokie edition (Weekend edition), Saturday, June 6, 1987, Sec. 1, p. 1 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Memorials, tributes, and remembrances, Crime and criminals - Vandalism |
Holocaust Monument unveiling Sunday | 1987-05-28 | A monument honoring the millions of people who died during the Holocaust will be unveiled May 24 on Skokie's Village Green. | Skokie Review, Thursday, May 28, 1987, p. 3 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Memorials, tributes, and remembrances |
Horror returns to haunt Holocaust survivors | 1987-06-04 | Skokie residents are outraged at the desecration of the Holocaust Memorial Monument on the Village Green. The Skokie Review is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the vandals. | Skokie Review, Thursday, June 4, 1987, p. 3 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Memorials, tributes, and remembrances, Crime and criminals - Vandalism |
Police no closer to solving statue vandalism | 1987-10-01 | According to Skokie police, the investigation into the vandalism at the Holocaust Memorial Monument four months ago remains an active case. | Skokie Review, Thursday, October 1, 1987, p. 3 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Skokie Police Department, Memorials, tributes, and remembrances, Crime and criminals - Vandalism |
Rabbi Neil Brief reflects on time in Skokie | 2016-09-15 | None | Skokie Review, Thursday, September, 15, 2016, p. 6 | Carter, Jimmy, Brief, Erica, Synagogues, Neo-Nazis, Weill, Jeffrey, Clergy, Brief, Rabbi Neil, Congregation Ezra Habonim-The Niles Township Jewish Congregation (NTJC), Ross, Judith, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Carroll, Allan |
Remembering the survivors | 2004-04-22 | None | Skokie Review, Thursday, April 22, 2004, p. 100 | Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois |
Search continues for statue vandals | 1987-07-09 | More than a month after vandals spray painted Skokie's Holocaust Memorial Monument, police continue to search for the vandals. Nearly $50,000 in reward money has not produced any solid information about the incident. | Skokie Review, Thursday, July 9, 1987, p. 5 | Art, Holocaust Memorial Monument, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Memorials, tributes, and remembrances, Crime and criminals - Vandalism |