SHOAH: How Was It Humanly Possible

February 13th, 2025

3:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Unity High School

1127 County Rd 800, Tolono IL

The Holocaust Education Center is partnering with Tolono's Unity Jr. and High Schools to host the Traveling Holocaust Exhibit, SHOAH: How Was It Humanly Possible, with CU community connections, at Unity High School on Thursday, February 13th from 3:00-9:00pm. 

This exhibition displays major historical aspects of the Holocaust. Known in Hebrew as the Shoah, the Holocaust was a total and systematic genocide, between 1933 and 1945 in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Their aim, complete annihilation of the Jewish people through mass extermination. 

These large panels bring the past to the present and enable visitors to further understand the Holocaust and remember the victims, through first person accounts of not only persecution, but the resilience of survival.

This exhibit also contains special additions with stories of Holocaust Survivors from Champaign-Urbana. We are grateful to the Illini Hillel for the use of this exhibit. This exhibit was created by Yad Vashem.