Annual Lecture with the Durham Museum
2025-03-26 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | The Durham Museum
The Institute for Holocaust Education is honored to partner with the Durham Museum as a part of its annual Week of Understanding, a week of programing and lectures where over 6,000 people will hear the moving testimony of survivors of the Holocaust and second-generation survivors of the Holocaust.

Registration through the Durham Museum
Advanced registration is required. Regular museum admission applies, free for museum members!
Three ways to register:

Online: Click on the green “Register” icon (Please note, your registration is not complete until you’ve clicked the “Check Out” button)
Phone: 402-444-5071
Email: reservations@DurhamMuseum.org

Guest Lecturer - Dr. Andreas Musolf
2025-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Please join us!
UNL Research Council Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Andreas Musolff, Cognitive Linguist
University of East Anglia, UK
An event of the IHE Week of Understanding
Thursday, March 27 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Staenberg Omaha Jewish Community Center – 333 S 132nd Street, Omaha – Wiesman Family Reception Room
Register HERE
Sponsored by:
UNL Harris Center for Judaic Studies * UNL Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education (M3) * UNL Research * Institute for Holocaust Education *Jewish Community Relations Council

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

Round 1 Judging: 24th Annual Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest
2026-03-11 17:30 - 20:00 UTC | JCC Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha
The first round of judging for the 24th Annual Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest, where Nebraska and Iowa high school students’ inspiring stories of moral courage will be celebrated, and help determine which writer earns the top prize.

Lunch & Learn featuring Mollie Davis
2026-03-19 11:30 - 13:00 UTC | ZOOM
The next virtual Lunch & Learn will feature Mollie Davis on Thursday, March 19.
In a talk based around her Times of Israel essay “On Jewish Allyship and The Frightening Character”, Mollie will discuss how Creighton’s “Nuremberg to The Hague” study abroad program informed her advocacy against antisemitism — and Jewish allyship in a post-10/7 world.
Mollie Davis is a writer, and third year law student at Creighton University School of Law. Upon graduation in May, Mollie hopes to practice law in Nebraska alongside pursuing military history/national security academia.
This session is part of IHE’s ongoing Third Thursday series, dedicated to education, reflection, and dialogue around the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights.

To register: https://igfn.us/form/x1OUhg

Week of Understanding
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-27
The 16th annual Week of Understanding will take place March 23–27. Educators can sign up now to bring second & third-generation Holocaust survivor testimony to students in the Omaha metro area. Register here: https://ihene.org/…/week-of-understanding-registration/

Week of Understanding at the Durham
2026-03-25 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | The Durham Museum
For 50 years, Abe Piasek carried in silence the unfathomed weight of surviving Nazi labor and death camps. In time, he knew he needed to share his experience, doing so at schools, churches, community centers and military bases. Before his passing in 2020, Abe asked his friend Steve Goldberg, an educator, to keep telling his story — a story of a 13-year-old boy being taken away from his family and never seeing his parents or little sister again.

Abe’s legacy continues on March 25 at The Durham Museum, as part of the Institute for Holocaust Education lecture series. We are honored to welcome Steve Goldberg, who will share with our audience Abe’s story of pain, courage and healing.

To Register: DurhamMuseum.org/holocaust-education

Art & The Holocaust Reception
2026-04-13 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | JCC Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha
View the work of talented middle school artists who participated in Art & the Holocaust during a special reception in the Gallery.
For more information about the program, visit: https://ihene.org/for-students/art-the-holocaust/

Omaha Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2026-04-15 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | JCC Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha
We pause to remember the six million Jews and the millions of others who were murdered in Nazi Europe—and all that was lost with them.
We honor the living: those who miraculously survived the Holocaust, as well as their children and grandchildren who carry their legacy forward.
The most meaningful way to observe Yom HaShoah is together, as a community. In doing so, we acknowledge not only a profound Jewish loss, but a loss to all humanity.
Join us Wednesday, April 15, to mark this day.

Lunch and Learn with Dr. Geralyn Crain
2026-04-16 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Dr. Crain will share the story of her mother, Alice Kern, a Holocaust survivor born in Romania. At 21, Kern was deported to Auschwitz and was liberated from Bergen Belsen. Her memoir, “Tapestry of Hope,”recounts her survival, and the documentary, “Journey to Remember,” follows her return to these sites with her daughters.
To register: igfn.us/form/x1OUhg

State Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2026-04-19 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Nebraska State Capitol, 1445 K St, Lincoln, NE, 68508, United States
We pause to remember the six million Jews and the millions of others who were murdered in Nazi Europe—and all that was lost with them.
We honor the living: those who miraculously survived the Holocaust, as well as their children and grandchildren who carry their legacy forward.
The most meaningful way to observe Yom HaShoah is together, as a community. In doing so, we acknowledge not only a profound Jewish loss, but a loss to all humanity.
Join us Wednesday, April 19, to mark this day.

Tapestry: Morning Has Broken Reflecting on Israel and the Diaspora Relationship since 10/7
2026-04-30 11:30 - 13:00 UTC | JCC Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha
Morning Has Broken: Reflecting on Israel and the Diaspora Relationship Since October 7
Join us for a thoughtful and engaging Tapestry event exploring the evolving relationship between Israel and the global Jewish diaspora in the aftermath of October 7. This open-to-the-public program is sponsored by the Institute for Holocaust Education and the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Bring your own lunch and gain insight from featured Tapestry speaker Dr. Erica Brown, a respected scholar and author. The session will offer space for learning, reflection, and meaningful conversation.
Registration is required.
