Institute for Holocaust Education

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

2025-08-27 19:00 - 21:00
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.

Advisory Board Meeting
2025-09-08 00:00, 2026-01-12 00:00

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

October Lunch & Learn: Micah Huyser - Executive Director at Nebraska Prairie Museum
2025-10-16 11:30 - 13:00
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

November Lunch & Learn: Helen Pankowsky
2025-11-20 11:30 - 13:00
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
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
