The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
Annual community Yom Hashoah commemoration. All are welcome.
New York pianist, Roger Peltzman’s one-person show, “Dedication,” recounts his family’s tragic history fleeing the Nazis in war-torn Europe using drama, humor, powerful images, and musical performances of everything from blues to Chopin.
Drawn into the story of people he never knew, Peltzman develops a “relationship” with his uncle, Norbert Stern, a brilliant pianist who was murdered in Auschwitz at age 21. Learning that Holocaust trauma can be inherited, Peltzman recounts his coming to terms with second generation survivor trauma and the role of music in helping to manage wounds that will never fully heal.
Co-sponsored by The White Theatre and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. Generous support provided by the MCHE Jack Mandelbaum Holocaust Education Fund.
April 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Over Zoom
As part of the ongoing Generations Initiative, MCHE will host a one-time event for grandchildren of survivors interested in starting their own memory writing. No prior experience with writing is necessary. For those looking for a place to start and those unsure if they want to write at all, please join us for an open conversation about what third generation writing can look like.
The 2026 State of Kansas Holocaust Commemoration featured a proclamation by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and a presentation by Dr. Judy Jacobs, a Hungarian survivor from Budapest who experienced the Kastner Train and incarceration at Bergen-Belsen.
The commemoration occurs each spring and is open to the public and to school audiences.
Join us for this online presentation by Dr. Samuel Kassow.
Dr. Kassow is Charles Northam Professor of History Emeritus, Trinity College and author of Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archives (Indiana University Press, 2007). He served as a consultant for the documentary film version of Who Will Write Our History. He is the author of The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police.
In 2027, we observe the 85th anniversary of the Nazis systematic plan to annihilate Europe’s Jewish population—known as the Final Solution. This journey from Germany to Poland follows the path of destruction while honoring the resilience and vibrancy of Jewish life before the Holocaust. We will explore Jewish heritage sites that tell the stories of thriving communities before the war, we will visit ghettos, memorials, museums, and former killing centers, to deepen our understanding of how the Holocaust unfolded, commemorate the lives lost, and honor those who resisted and survived.
This experience is open to MCHE members for enrollment.
“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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