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Holocaust Museum Director Announces His Departure
Rick Hirschhaut will leave the Skokie museum early next year, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Rick Hirschhaut, 53, who has served as executive director of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie since 2004 and spearheaded the $50 million fundraising drive to build the museum building, which opened in 2009, has announced plans to leave sometime early next year, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The museum was formerly located in a small building on Main Street before it moved to the new facility on Woods Drive, just north of Golf Road.
A group of survivors who had a vision for the museum hand-picked Hirschhaut for the job, confident that he would help make it a living institution and not just a history lesson, reported the Skokie Review. Hirschhaut had earlier worked with the Anti-Defamation League.
He has not disclosed future plans for his career.
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