Art and the Holocaust Exhibit
2025-03-31 10:00 - 2025-04-30 10:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center)
The Institute for Holocaust Education invites middle school art teachers and their students to participate in an annual Holocaust-related project.
In order to build knowledge of the Holocaust participating teachers will teach a Holocaust lesson provided by the IHE to their students during at least one full class period before commencing with the visual art portion of the project.
Suggested projects are literature-inspired murals, an artifact collage, a charcoal portrait of a victim of the Holocaust or of someone who has a shared life experience. Upon completion, students prepare a written reflection on the project. The IHE provides curriculum resources for each project and a stipend to be used for art supplies.
Each year the project culminates in an exhibit of student artwork in the Eisenberg Art Gallery at the Jewish Community Center along with a reception for the artists, their parents, and their teachers.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1. To become familiar with individual people and cultural history in the Holocaust.
2. To use art as a method to learn about the Holocaust.
3. To understand and apply portraiture and experience media while learning about individuals of the Holocaust.
4. To understand visual arts in relation to history and other disciplines and to relate that knowledge to the student’s current life.
5. To reflect upon the effectiveness of the project.
For more information about the project, please contact us: info@ihene.org

Art and the Holocaust Reception
2025-04-07 18:30 - 19:30 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Third Thursday Lunch and Learn
2025-04-17 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-05-15 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-06-19 11:30 - 13:00 UTC | ZOOM
This series is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and seeks to educate, engage, and empower the community through discussion, presentations, and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust and other genocides.
All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30-1PM on their respective days.
For more information regarding the Third Thursday programming at IHE, to RSVP for a program, or if you have any ideas for future programs, please reach out to Scott Littky, Executive Director of IHE, at slittky@ihene.org

Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:00 UTC

Yom HaShoah Lincoln Commemoration
2025-04-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest: Award Ceremony 2025
2025-05-05 18:30 - 19:30 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Advisory Board Meeting
2025-05-12 08:00 - 17:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center), 2025-09-08 00:00 UTC, 2026-01-12 00:00 UTC

August Lunch & Learn: Don Bacon
2025-08-21 11:30 - 13:00 UTC

2025-08-27 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Women in Auschwitz
August 27 at 7:00 PM
Weisman Room at the Staenberg JCC
In this talk, Cushman will discuss women’s existence in the most notorious Nazi camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau. Three groups of women lived and worked in the camp. Women prisoners, including Jews, Romani women, political prisoners, and others, suffered and tried to survived in deadly conditions of starvation and forced labor. Some few found advantages in “privileged” work or as prisoner functionaries. These women often had some degree of power, which they used sometimes to help and sometimes to harm. Other women served the SS in Auschwitz as guards, communications experts, and nurses. Others accompanied their husbands to the camp as helpmeets in the racial domination of Europe. We will explore these groups individually and in interaction with each other.

Anne Frank Traveling Exhibit: Missouri Valley Public Library
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-25

September Lunch & Learn: Harmon Maples
2025-09-18 11:30 - 13:00 UTC

October Lunch & Learn: Micah Huyser - Executive Director at Nebraska Prairie Museum
2025-10-16 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
A discussion on the art exhibit of Thomas Naegele, Scenes from an Internment Camp Indianola in Nebraska.
This series is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and seeks to educate, engage, and empower the community through discussion, presentations, and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust and other genocides.
All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30-1PM on their respective days.
For more information regarding the Third Thursday programming at IHE, to RSVP for a program, or if you have any ideas for future programs, please reach out to Scott Littky, Executive Director of IHE, at slittky@ihene.org

Anne Frank Traveling Exhibit: Bryan High School
2025-11-11 08:00 - 2025-11-22 17:00 UTC

November Lunch & Learn: Helen Pankowsky
2025-11-20 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Helen Pankowsky will speak on the artwork of her grandmother, Holocaust Survivor, Hanna Davidson Pankowsky
This series is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and seeks to educate, engage and empower the community through discussion, presentations and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust. All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30-1PM on their respective days.
To RSVP and gain access to the Zoom information for any of these IHE Third Thursday lunch and Learn programs, please reach out to Scott Littky, Executive Director of IHE, at slittky@ihene.org

December Lunch & Learn: Idan Zaccai
2025-12-18 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Idan Zaccai, Holocaust Educator – Resistance is our featured speaker for December.
This series is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and seeks to educate, engage and empower the community through discussion, presentations and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust. All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30-1PM on their respective days.
To RSVP and gain access to the Zoom information for any of these IHE Third Thursday lunch and Learn programs, please reach out to Scott Littky, Executive Director of IHE, at slittky@ihene.org
