The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
The community is invited to join us in celebrating the legacy of testimony provided by our local survivors. This book fair, featuring books written by or about local survivors, includes a chance to purchase books and meet the authors or children of the survivors.
Books we expect to be available include those featuring the testimony of survivors Maria Devinki, Ben Edelbaum, Fela Igielnik, Judy Jacobs, Alice Kern, Klaus Frank, Jack Mandelbaum, Erika Mandler, and Bronia Roslawowski. MCHE will sell From the Heart: Life Before and After the Holocaust, featuring the profiles of 52 survivors and refugees.
Registration is requested.
A program by Dr. Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies; and of Global Studies
‘Decentering Auschwitz’ has long been a goal of scholarship and civic initiatives focusing on the history and memory of the Holocaust. Recognizing the diversity of experience across German-occupied Europe, understanding the dynamics of violence, and acknowledging the long-term legacies of the Nazi genocide in various regions have given rise to a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Holocaust. The presentation offers a survey of recent insights and emphasizes the value of bringing together the methodologies of Holocaust Studies, East European Studies, and the Spatial Humanities
Light reception at 6:30 pm
Election and Program at 7:00 pm
Social Hall at the Jewish Community Campus
5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park, KS
Members of MCHE are invited to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting and Elections, honoring outgoing president Steve Cole. Reservations are requested using the link below.
Program via webinar on Thursday, October 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast discusses the experiences of LGBTQ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Eric will share clips from archival interviews that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
“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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