Collin said they selected Skokie to protest decisions by Chicago-area park districts, including Skokie’s, barring them from holding a demonstration in Chicago area parks. The demonstration was to last ...

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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 ...

(J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California via JTA) — Ben Stern, who survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches only to confront Nazi sympathizers in his adopted ...

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 ...

In 1977, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America applied for a permit to march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish, Chicago suburb. They wanted to wear brown ...

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.

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 ...