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  Fritzie Fritzshall

  In 1944, at the age of only 13, Fritzie Fritzshalland her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Fritzie survived selection by pretending to be 15 years old at the advice of one of the inmates when she got off the train. Otherwise, she would have been considered too young to work. Eventually, Fritzie would be separated from the rest of her family. When she asked when she would see her mother again, fellow inmates pointed to the smoke of the crematorium.
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  Sam Harris

  In 1942, Sam Harris and his family were rounded up for deportation. During the chaos of the round up, Sam’s father pushed him out line and told him to run and hide. Sam watched his parents and four sisters and brothers march towards the railcars. That was the last time he saw his family. Sammy was able to escape death, his survival was nothing short of a miracle.
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  Richard Hirschhaut and J.B. Pritzker

  As Executive Director of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Richard Hirschhaut has led a campaign to establish this major international human rights and education center in the Chicago suburb of Skokie since 2004. As chairman of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, which opened in 2009, J.B. Pritzker successfully led the effort to build an international institution in the Midwest dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides.