Chicago Speaker Series of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2005, a woman living in Geneva, Switzerland, discovered a mysterious suitcase in her basement. Inside it were more than 1,000 World War II-era documents bearing the official seal of the Consulate of El Salvador -- each featuring the photograph of a man, woman, or child. Why were decades-old official papers of a Central American nation lying forgotten in a Swiss basement?
Join Museum historian Edna Friedberg to learn the remarkable story of one of the largest yet least known rescue attempts of the Holocaust. This program is free and open to the public but reservations are requested. Please call 847.604.1924 or visit www.ushmm.org/events/may1.