The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
MCHE’s Spring Lunch and Learn Series examines the role of the Einsatzgruppen in the Holocaust. Participants will learn from a combination of lecture, reading, hands on work with primary sources, and group discussion.
This program is offered both in-person on Thursdays and on Zoom on Fridays. Registration is required.
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
The public is invited to join MCHE Historian Dr. Shelly Cline for a discussion of the book with authors Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa.
Join MCHE Historian for this moderated conversation with author Chris Heath, author of No Road Leading Back.
This program is part of the Acclaimed Author Series offered by Jewish Experiences.
“Through Hell to the Midwest” is a mapping project that traces the stories of survivors who settled in the Kansas City area. Using oral history testimony collected by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and dually housed in the Fortunoff Archive at Yale University. Dr. Amber Nickell, Professor Hollie Marquess, and student Sarah Keiss from the Fort Hays State University History Department have mapped these survivors and their experiences. Each map tells the story of one Holocaust survivor, tracing their steps from their hometowns in Central and Eastern Europe, through their Holocaust experiences to their new lives in Kansas and Missouri.
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