The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
The true account of Enric Marco, the longstanding self-elected speaker of the Spanish Association for Holocaust Victims. Enric falsely claimed to have been one of 9,000 Spaniards interned in a Nazi concentration camp.
The public is invited to view the film and listen to remarks from Benito Bermejo, the Spanish historian whose work exposed Marco’s lies.
This program is offered in partnership with UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Oppenstein Brother’s Fund for Judaic Studies, the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, and Sister Cities Association of Kansas.
Free and open to the public
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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