Over the last few months IHE has had the honor to do work ranging from coordinating our annual Week of Understanding, to hosting the exhibition of student artwork from our Art and the Holocaust curriculum. |
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Our goal is to ensure that the tragedy and history of the Holocaust are remembered, that appropriate, fact-based instruction and materials are available to students, educators, and the public to enable them to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and that, as a result, we inspire our community to create a more just and equitable society. |
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Happenings in Holocaust Education |
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In order to build knowledge of the Holocaust and the role of art during that period of history, participating teachers teach a Holocaust lesson provided by the IHE with their students during at least one full class period before commencing with the visual art portion of the project. Students work from this programing in exhibited by IHE at the Jewish Community Center. |
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This year IHE held the exhibit reception in person, attended by over 100 people. The exhibit will remain in the gallery of the Jewish Community Center until the end of April. |
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The IHE apologizes for the omission of the Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation in our list of donors in our 2021 Annual Report.
We are greatly appreciative of the Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation’s continued support of our annual Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest.
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Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest 2022 |
The annual Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest for Nebraska and Iowa high school students is underway. Judging is in the final stages, and IHE was excited to receive over 200 essay submissions this year.
The winners will be announced in May, with a reception for them and their families at the Jewish Community Center.
More information about the contest can be found here.
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The 2022 Yom HaShoah program will begin at 7PM on April 27, in the Theatre of the Jewish Community Center. This year, IHE is pleased to welcome Dr. Gerald Steinacher as our Yom HaShoah speaker, presenting Secrets of the Vatican Archives: The Nazis, the Holocaust, and the Pope.
Yellow candles will be available in the Lobby, and IHE invites all community members to attend. For more information please visit our website, here.
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Week of Understanding is an annual educational initiative created by the IHE and the Omaha Public Schools. The week is designed to deliver Holocaust survivor testimony to a maximum number of students in one school week. This year, the Week of Understanding was a totally virtual event to accommodate as many of our speakers, students, and teachers as possible. |
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During the week of March 21-25, 2022, IHE streamed four survivor, three second generation (2G), and one third generation (3G) speakers into schools across Nebraska.
For more information about Week of Understanding, and our speakers please visit here.
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Kati Larson has been an educator for almost 30 years, serving as a Reading Communications teacher and a teacher of English and World History. She has attended the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Conference for Educators for three years in a row (2020-22). She also attended the Institute for Holocaust Education Omaha Conference for Teachers in 2020.
She has the pleasure of coordinating travels with students to various locations regarding Holocaust Education across D.C., Philadelphia and New York City.
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" Being an educator today is a difficult task; we are dealing with so many levels of emotions, uncertainty, trauma, social/economic difficulties, and kids who simply need a safe place to hope and heal. Schools are (and always have been) this place for so many. Although I love teaching all of my classes, my Holocaust class is what inspires me to keep teaching every single day. The topics of discussion are broad and complex, and as we use the Holocaust as our platform and foundation for learning about what hatred can do when gone unchecked, our conversations are critical, thoughtful, emotional, and lasting. Students are engaged in a class culture of dignity and respect for all people. I know, even on the difficult days, my students and I gain immeasurable lessons from each other. If even one of my students comprehends an understanding of our immense responsibility to one another as human beings, the world has been changed for the better. This is my passion." |
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Upcoming Third Thursday Lunch and Learn Series |
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More information found here.
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On May 19 at 11:30 am, (again by Zoom,) we will have the opportunity to learn from, Dr. Jeremy Johnson, Associate Professor of Art Education in the College of Communication, Fine Arts, and Media at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Johnson was born and raised in Wisconsin.
He holds a BFA in Multimedia Design from the University of Wisconsin Stout as well as BA in K-12 Art Education from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Johnson also holds a MS in Reading from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and a PhD in Art Education from the University of Minnesota. Johnson has taught at the elementary, middle and secondary levels as a public arts educator.
His current research focus is on educating students and adults on the Holocaust through graphic novels. He is currently working on a biographical graphic novel on the artistic prodigy Samuel Bak.
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On June 16, 2022 at 11:30 AM on Zoom, IHE Communications Coordinator, Ariel O'Donnell, will be presenting a discussion of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and their experiences during the Holocaust, including the enforcement of Paragraph 175 in the post-Holocaust period.
Outside of working for IHE, O'Donnell is a student at the University of Nebraska Omaha where she studies Religion, Philosophy, and Creative Writing.
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July’s program on the will feature, Nicole Freeman, Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. Currently, Ms. Freeman is finishing her dissertation on the experiences of child survivors in Poland after the Holocaust. She will be presenting on Jewish children's experiences during and after the Holocaust and using memoirs as sources in the classroom.
Once again, our July 21, 2022 Lunch and Learn will be at 11:30 am by Zoom.
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Antisemitism: Here and Now |
"Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents…Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat the latest manifestations of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, acclaimed historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and certain to be controversial responses to these troubling questions." |
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The Institute for Holocaust Education provides educational resources, workshops, survivor testimony, and integrated arts programming to students, educators, and the public. The IHE provides support to Holocaust survivors in our community. |
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We are grateful for your generosity and care of Holocaust Education. |
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The IHE apologizes for the omission of Ellie Batt in our list of donors in our 2021 Annual Report. We are thankful for all of our generous donors, who make our work possible.
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