The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
Sexual Violence and Figures of Femininity: Comparing
Artists Interpretations of Sexual Violence in Ravensbrück and Auschwitz
Alexandra McCarthy, a Ph.D candidate in Genocide and Holocaust Studies at Gratz College in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania will deliver the second annual Ruthie Research Scholar Lecture. Her presentation will discuss depictions of sexual violence in the art of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz survivors, including brief overviews of the artists’ experiences, backgrounds and artistic life prior to and after the Holocaust. She will also explore why considering art as a form of testimony is important in thinking about women’s testimonies.
Liberating Auschwitz, Investigating the Crime
Presented by Dr. Shelly Cline, MCHE Historian/Director of Education
Regnier Auditorium, Regnier Hall
12610 Quivira Road
Overland Park, KS 66213
Join us to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This presentation will focus on what the Soviets discovered when they liberated the camp in January 1945 as well as their immediate efforts to investigate the enormity of the crime they uncovered.
Registration is requested. This program is offered in partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kansas.
Taught by Dr. Shelly Cline
February 5, 2025 at 12 pm on Zoom
𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘚, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦s 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦se 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴.
Available for CLE credits through the University of Missouri-Kansas City, but open to the public. Registration required. This class is presented in partnership with UMKC Law School and Jewish Experiences, a collaboration of the Jewish Federation and the J. This course is $80 for attorneys, and free for educators, students and non-credit attendees.
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.
“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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