The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
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.
Few dates hold as much significance in German history as November 9. From the birth of the Weimar Republic to the violence of the Nazi era, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the events of this single day hold some of the most consequential turning points of the 20th century. This year’s annual Kristallnacht commemoration will explore the history of a date that time and again, changed the course of Germany’s history.
As part of the ongoing Generations Initiative, Dr. Melissa Karp will lead the third cohort of the 2G Writing Project in 2027.
From the rise of Nazism and the devastation of the Holocaust to the city’s postwar division and eventual reunification, this immersive one-week journey through Berlin traces stories of resistance, rescue, moral courage, and the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Each day is built for reflection, conversation, and genuine engagement with some of the most consequential history of the 20th century — exploring how a city once synonymous with tyranny became a global leader in historical memory and democratic values. Iconic landmarks, historic Jewish neighborhoods, powerful memorials, and lesser-known sites all have a role to play in revealing Berlin’s complicated, unflinching past.
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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