Tema Bauer, who lost an arm in the Auschwitz concentration camp, weeps in front of the defaced Holocaust monument in Skokie, Illinois; ca. 1987.
At its peak in the mid-1960s, 40% of the population was Jewish, the largest percentage of any Chicago suburb. In the mid-1970s, Skokie was at the center of a case concerning the First Amendment right to assemble and the National Socialist Party of America, a neo-Nazi group. Skokie ultimately lost that case. At the time it was home to over 7,000 survivors of the Holocaust, representing the largest concentration outside of Jerusalem.
(Image Source: Chicago Tribune)












