Echoes of a Nightmare

Title

Echoes of a Nightmare

Description

Cinema verité documentary chronicling the now famous incident concerning the efforts of the American Nazi Party to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois. Filmed in and around Skokie and Chicago, EOAN captures all the major participants; Skokie residents, Holocaust survivors, the ACLU, and the Nazis during the height of the controversy. July 9, 1978 rally in Marquette Park with huge counterdemonstration.

Abstract

Interviews with Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois. Footage of Marquette Park area in Chicago, Illinois and interviews with Frank Collin and other neo-Nazis. Includes footage of June 24, 1978 rally in Federal Plaza in Chicago.

Date

1987

Contributor

Zizzo, Christopher
McCormick, John
Brown, Betty

Rights Holder

© Mitchell Holzman and Abraham Holtz

Format

Duration

0:26:05

Director

Holzman, Mitchell; Holtz, Abraham

Files

Date Added
September 9, 2016
Collection
Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
Item Type
Moving Image
Tags
Citation
Holzman, Mitchell and Holtz, Abraham, “Echoes of a Nightmare,” Skokie History Digital Collections, accessed April 26, 2024, https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/items/show/382.