It was a late January afternoon in 2001 when Tian Shuai, a 20-year-old
dancer with China’s Guang Zhou ballet company, decided once and for all
that he was not going back to China. Meribah Knight follows his story
from defection to the 55th floor above Lake Shore Drive.
Students visit the Miller Family Youth Exhibition at the newly opened Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, IL. The space, designed for children aged eight to 11, uses state-of-the-art technology, interactive stations and a park-like setting to offer an experiential approach to lessons of tolerance and responsible citizenship.