August 31
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide. We serve Kansas, western Missouri and the Midwest.
Our office is open to the public by appointment. Face masks are required in the office.
Film footage from a long-ago vacation, interviews conducted to find lost Jewish graves, Nazi propaganda, and YouTube videos of young Israelis. All the films in this year’s series were constructed from footage originally shot for another purpose. This repurposing creates a layered experience through which much is revealed.
During the summer of 1942, from July 22 through September 21, the Germans deported some 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto – the bulk of the ghetto’s population – to the Treblinka II death camp, where most of them were murdered on arrival. An eight-week operation, that the Germans called Grossaktion Warschau (“Great Action Warsaw”), it was marked by non-stop daily violence and terror as the victims were rounded up block by block, marched through the ghetto streets, assembled at the Umschlagplatz station square, and crowded into freight cars for the 50 mile trip to the camp.
On the 80th anniversary of the events, Dr. Fran Sternberg will address the significance of the largest and most emblematic deportation operation in the largest and most emblematic of all the ghettos by looking at the perpetrators’ policies and procedures and the victims’ perceptions and responses – an examination of systematic genocide in microcosm.
MCHE’s Program Associate is responsible for the primary support of our programs for secondary students and their educators as well as for building relationships with educators and school administrators to expand MCHE’s reach to schools throughout the region.
Thank you for your remarkable response to the exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. All presentations from the Auschwitz Speaker Series are available here.
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