Add your story to Illinois Holocaust Museum

What object or tradition relates to your cultural identity or migration story?

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  2. Category (required)

  3. Describing your photo helps those with low vision access the information on a screen reader.

    photo Select main image of object (required)
    Drag + drop your image to this area
    or
    photo Select a photo of author (optional)
    Drag + drop your image to this area
    or
    photo Select a related photo (optional)
    Drag + drop your image to this area
    or
    photo Select a related photo (optional)
    Drag + drop your image to this area
    or
  4. volume_up Select an MP3 or M4A (optional)
    Drag + drop your audio file to this area
    or
    Add an audio (optional). MP3 or M4A, 3MB max.
  9. Relationship to immigrant or migrant

  13. In addition to publishing your story on this website, Your Story, Our Story occasionally shares stories more widely for educational purposes and to connect to themes and time periods.

    There are two ways we would share your story:

    • In a featured collection of stories around a theme.
    • On the Tenement Museum or a partner institution’s social media, with authors’ first names only.

    To see a featured collection, social media post, or tour story, click the links above.

    May we share your story in these ways?