For Right to Live in Peace
"The idea that I’m safe here, that nobody was going to try to kill me was totally shattered." -Aaron Elster “My husband said, ‘What are you afraid of? You are in America.' But I couldn’t shake that fear.” -Magda Brown "To the survivors of Skokie, the Nazis were back."
-Howard Reich "Nazis marching in downtown Chicago protected by the first amendment, Nazis in their regalia moving to this Jewish village with the thousands of survivors of the Holocaust wearing the Jack Boots, their brown shirts, their swastikas, they are physically assaulting the persons living in Skokie, saying to them, ‘We missed you last time, the gas furnaces are still there, we'll get you next time.” -Abbot Rosen of the ADL
"I want you to know that we survivors live two lives. We live today's life, but at no time have we parted from what happened in those years." -Anonymous |
Skokie"The Skokie Village Master Plan of 1946 specifically called for single-family homes to be built instead of apartments, so that people would set down roots. And that’s precisely what the survivors and other urban Jews wanted—a home of their own, no matter how small, in a safe corner of suburbia. Word spread quickly...
...They migrated to a village that, by 1975, was 57 percent Jewish, according to estimates by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago." -Howard Reich
"Skokie (population 66,620) is located approximately 12 miles outside of Chicago on the edge of the city. In 1977, an estimated 40,000 residents were Jewish and 5,000-7,000 were Holocaust survivors."
-Joey Pizzolato Sol GoldsteinAP Photo/ Charles E. Knoblock
"Survivor Sol Goldstein emerged as one of the leading voices battling Collin, winning over Skokie village counsel Harvey Schwartz, an American-born Jew, in the process. Though Schwartz at first believed the Nazis had a First Amendment right to march, after witnessing the survivors’ agony over Collin’s threatened arrival he came to believe that the march must be stopped."
-Howard Reich To read an article about Sol Goldstein, click here. Click thumbnail to read article.
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