The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Centre has opened in Skokie, IL, US.

Around 12,000 people attended the US$45m (£30m, 34m euro), 65,000sq ft (6,040sq m) museum, which features 2,000 survivor testimonies.

The museum – designed by architect Stanley Tigerman – houses artefacts such as Simon Wiesenthal’s eyeglasses, an original volume of the Nuremberg Trial transcripts, Kindertransport lists and artwork made in the concentration camps.

Its Room of Remembrance honours the memory of Holocaust victims and contains the inscribed names of nearly 1,300 people on its 25ft walls.

The Chicago suburb of Skokie is an ideal location for the museum, as it was an enclave for many survivors and was the location of an attempt by neo-Nazis to march through the community in the 1970s, which was ultimately unsuccessful.