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
Subject
Contributor
Zizzo, Christopher
McCormick, John
Brown, Betty
Rights
In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights Holder
© Mitchell Holzman and Abraham Holtz
Format
Duration
0:26:05
Director
Holzman, Mitchell; Holtz, Abraham
Tags
Citation
Holzman, Mitchell and Holtz, Abraham, “Echoes of a Nightmare,” Skokie History Digital Collections, accessed December 4, 2022, https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/items/show/382.