The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
The 2025 Yom Hashoah service will commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 62st anniversary of the dedication of the Memorial to the Six Million. Chaired by Mark Eisemann, the program features the wartime experiences of his father, Dr. Gustave Eisemann , and includes the traditional lighting of six candles honoring the six million murdered Jewish victims.
This program is free and open to the public. Live stream available on MCHE’s YouTube channel beginning at 1:30 that day.
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. Survivors may be present to meet visitors and sign their profiles in the book.
This come-and-go event but registrations are requested to help us plan appropriate inventory for book sales. This program is co-sponsored by Jewish Experiences.
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.
“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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