We heard about the Museum's Americans and the Holocaust Initiative, the impact of our traveling exhibitions, and honored long-time Museum supporters, Loren and Howard Friend, with the National Leadership Award. Our featured speakers, Anne Applebaum and Dr. Edna Friedberg, gave historical context to the war in Ukraine and explained why the Museum’s work to reach global audiences is so urgent today.
We must meet the challenges of these uncertain times. Join the Midwest Regional Office in supporting the timely and timeless work of this Museum.
Dedicated Museum supporters, the Friends have hosted fundraising events at their home, served as corporate co-chairs for the 2009 Chicago Luncheon, and traveled with the Museum on multiple occasions, including visits to Eastern Europe and Rwanda.
They are both active in their community of Glencoe, Illinois, and beyond. Howard is a board member of Am Shalom Temple, Jewish United Fund, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Loren is on the women’s board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and volunteers for Jewish Family Services and WITS (Working in the Schools).
Loren and Howard have been married for 47 years and have two children and five grandchildren.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, journalist, and staff writer for The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum examines the challenges and opportunities of global political and economic change through the lenses of world history and the contemporary political landscape. View her work (external link).
From Syrian refugees to Putin’s disinformation narratives, from the EU and the European financial crises to responding to terrorism, from solutions to transition-government corruption to political populists’ game-changing campaign language, Applebaum provides both background and up-to-the-minute insights that are vital to understanding the risks and opportunities of today’s world political and economic climate.
Anne’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag: A History is about the Soviet concentration camps. Her book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, is the winner of her second Duff Cooper Prize and the 28th Lionel Gelber Prize 2018. In it, Anne proves what many suspected: Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. Her other books include Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1946, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, and Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
She is a senior fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
Photo: Rahil Ahmad
Dr. Edna Friedberg is a Museum historian and senior program curator, and the host of the popular Facebook Live series. She joined the staff of the Museum in 1999 and served as the historian for the multingual online Holocaust Encyclopedia and as director of its Wexner Learning Center. She also curated a special exhibition on the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and postwar justice.
Dr. Friedberg regularly speaks to audiences across the country, and her essays connecting Holocaust history with social, cultural, and political issues today have appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Forward.
Priscilla is president of the Square One Foundation, a private family foundation rooted in Tikkun Olam and social justice, with a focus on access to social and economic opportunity for all Chicagoans and strengthening our democratic institutions. She is a former member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council at the appointment of President Barack Obama and currently serves on the board of Debate It Forward and the advisory council of UChicago Charter School. In addition, she has served on a variety of boards, including the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago Public Media, and was immediate past chair of the UChicago Women’s Board.
Steven is the owner and president of two manufacturing companies in Chicago, WaterSaver Faucet Co. and Guardian Equipment Inc. He is also an investor in industrial and office properties in the Chicago metropolitan area and has been a member and chair of several organizations and boards promoting manufacturing and workforce development. Steven is a member of World Business Chicago, the Commercial Club, and the Economic Club of Chicago and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago since 2006. He currently serves on the Executive, Investment, and Institutional Capacity Committees.
Priscilla and Steven have three children, Sam, Benjamin, and Allie.
In-Person Attendees
11 a.m. Registration
11:30 a.m. In-person program and lunch begins with remarks from Governor JB Pritzker, Motzi, and recognition of former Chicago luncheon chairs and honorees
Noon: Program and event live stream begins
1 p.m. Book signing with Anne Applebaum
Virtual Attendees
Noon: Live stream of program begins
Event Sponsors
Gifts as of September 9, 2022
$100,000 or more
Anonymous
Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation
Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation
The Crown and Goodman Families
Judy and Abel Friedman
Toby and Jeff Herr
Priscilla and Steven Kersten
The Malkin Family
The Michael P. Polsky Family
The Sidley Austin Foundation
$50,000–$99,999
The Lester and Edward Anixter Family Foundation
Loren and Howard Friend
GCM Grosvenor
Carylon, Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
Ann Wolk Krouse, in memory of Paul C. Krouse and Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Suzanne and Lee Miller
Sandra and Michael Perlow
Cari and Michael J. Sacks
Jamie Diamond Schwartz and David Schwartz
Kim and Perry Shwachman
Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, Michael Steinfeld Family, Paul Steinfeld Family, Jill and Tim Cunniff Family
Kathy Hess Tallering and Ken Tallering
$25,000–$49,999
Leadership Circle (gifts of $25,000+)
Anonymous
Abt Family Foundation
Rebecca and Dmitry Balyasny
Judy and Howard B. Bernick
Meredith Bluhm-Wolf and Bill Wolf
Robert and Leslie Mitchel Bond
Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum
Bernice and Benjamin B. Cohen and Family
Rita and Seymour Cohen
Cynthia Elkins Foundation
Laurie and Phillip Gerber
Diane and Hal Gershowitz, Lisa and Larry Kite, Barbara and Daniel Kite, Jill and Bill Friedman, Amy and Andy Lask, Jennifer and Michael Gershowitz Families
Danielle Rudas Goodman and Jordan Goodman
Sheila and Joseph Gutman and Family
Harris Family Foundation—Linda and Bill Friend, Pam Szokol, Caryn and King Harris, Stephanie and John Harris
Houlihan Lokey
Carol and Bill Kaplan/Senior Lifestyle
Jill and Jory Katlin
Risa, Harvey, Susan, Ronald, and Dana Lambert Family
Livney Family Foundation
Lauren and Todd Lustbader
Jill and Paul Meister
Mesirow Financial
Robert R. Nathan Philanthropic Fund
Northern Trust
Linda and Richard Price and Family
Arlen and Elaine Rubin
Elise Sacks, in loving memory of Lee Sacks
Karyn and Bill Silverstein
Takiff Family Foundation
Tina and Joseph Wolf
Janna and Sheffield Wolk
Zell Family Foundation
$15,000–$24,999
ALECKO Capital/Alex Pissios
Associated Agencies Inc./Herz and Schrayer Families
Blitstein Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein
Marcy and Greg Carlin
Carol and Douglas Cohen
DLA Piper US LLP
EMA Electromechanics, LLC
Larry and Barbara Field and Family
Karen and Jim Frank
Dr. Carolyn Friend-Weiner and Dr. James Weiner
Michelle and Corey Harris
Jeffrey and Penny Hecktman and Family
HMB Legal Counsel
Carol and Ed Kaplan
Lindsay and Gregg Kaplan Family
Beth and Mark Kaufmann
Andrea Kott and Mark Levine
Bernard and Helen Kozloff Family Foundation, Denise Kozloff and Mr. David Gross, Dr. Mark Kozloff and Mrs. Gale Kozloff, Dana and Craig Sanders
Laser Family Foundation
Fifi and Ron Levin/Barbara and Ira Eichner
Phyllis Levin in memory of Myron (Mike) Levin
Elaine and Donald Levinson
John and Serena Liew Family Fund
Jodi and Paul Loeb and Family
Carol Maxon
Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management—The Baldwin Marcovici Group
Andy and Nancy Mills
The Perlman Family Foundation, founded by Louis and Anita Perlman
Stacey and Brian Price
Richard and Karen Reisin
Jason B. Rosenthal and Family—In Memory of Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Susan and Alan Sebulsky
Jill and Rob Selati
Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation
The Sheba Foundation
Smart Family Foundation
Linda and Alan Swimmer
Weinberg Family
In loving memory of Hilda and Otto Wolf—Sandy and Bruce Wall and Brenda Wolf and Fred Siegman
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Risa K. Lambert was dedicated to the Museum from its inception and involved many of her friends in supporting this historic venture. As a fitting tribute, her family and friends generously named the annual Chicago luncheon, this year to be held virtually and include the whole midwest region, in her memory.
