The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
MCHE is committed to applying the lessons of the Holocaust to the world today, which includes the free exchange of ideas and open access to published materials. Adults 18 and over are invited to enter to win a banned book during Banned Books Week – October 4-10.
Entry Deadline: October 4, 2026. One entry per person. One winner will be selected by drawing each day of Banned Books Week.
Fall 2026 Lunch and Learn
Explore Berlin’s remarkable and turbulent history from its vibrant Jewish community and the possibilities of the Weimar era to the rise of Nazism, persecution, resistance, to the devastation of war and becoming the front line of the Cold War. The series concludes with Berlin’s reunification and its ongoing efforts to confront, remember, and reckon with its Nazi and Holocaust past.
Offered in-person on Thursdays and via zoom on Fridays.
Join Dr. Shelly Cline and Melissa Karp for a discussion centering around the book Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück.
This program is offered in partnership with Congregation Kol Ami in honor of National Coming Out Day.
The use and misuse of AI in Holocaust education and the ways it can fuel denial are urgent issues for teachers today. In response, MCHE offers this workshop to advise educators on some of specific challenges that arise when using AI tools in Holocaust education and lesson generation, and how to confront them.
This workshop will be offered over Zoom on October 14 and is limited to teachers.
Join us for this series of presentations by MCHE’s Dr. Shelly Cline and Jessica Rockhold as they share the history and the current state of memorialization which was explored in our 2025 European Study Tour when we visited Berlin, Krakow, Warsaw and Vilnius and the associated Holocaust sites in and around each of those cities.
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.
“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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