Advisory Board Meeting
2024-09-09 08:00 - 17:00 UTC, 2024-11-11 08:00 - 17:00 UTC, 2025-01-13 08:00 - 17:00 UTC, 2025-03-10 08:00 - 17:00 UTC, 2025-05-12 08:00 - 17:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Third Thursday Lunch and Learn
2024-09-19 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-11-21 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-12-19 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-01-16 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-02-20 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-03-20 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-04-17 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-05-15 11:30 - 13:00 UTC and 1 more date | 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

Nebraska Teacher Inservice Focusing on Holocaust Education and Primary Sources
2024-09-19 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
The UNL Harris Center for Judaic Studies offers a Nebraska Teacher Inservice Focusing on Holocaust Education and Primary Sources
Thursday, September 19, 2024 University of Nebraska-Lincoln @ Nebraska Union
Register HERE
This Inservice will explore resources from the Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors & WWII Veterans Network Portal & Educational Website in partnership with the Teaching with Primary Sources, Midwest Region facilitators, a program funded by the Library of Congress. Together, we will learn about using the Library of Congress online materials and create hands-on tools to integrate these and our community partners’ materials into your classroom curricula. Open to all content areas educators who incorporate Holocaust studies and primary sources in their teaching materials.

Nebraska Teacher Inservice Schedule

4:00 – 5:00
Presentation on the Nebraska Stories of Humanities Website

5:00 – 6:00
Teaching with Primary Sources exploration and content

6:00 – 6:30
Hosted Dinner

6:30 – 8:00
Discovering Your Connections – Interactive Session

JOIN US at nearby History Nebraska in Downtown Lincoln BEFORE the Inservice

Tour the exhibitions curated by the Institute for Holocaust Education

1:00 – 3:00
Portraits of Survival – photo exhibit by David Radler
The True Wartime Escape: Margret & H. A. Rey’s Journey from France

A Life Well Lived: An Account of David Kaufmann
2024-10-06 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | JCC Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha
OCT 6 | 7PM | DOCUMENTARY FILM
Free Admission – No registration required
The College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media in conjunction with the Institute for Holocaust Education, B’nai B’rith Monsky Lodge, and the UNO Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, present a screening of “A Life Well Lived: An Account of David Kaufmann”
The movie tells the remarkable true story of David Kaufmann, a central Nebraska businessman, community leader, and philanthropist, whose actions impacted countless lives.

Portraits of Survival Exhibit
2024-11-01 08:00 - 2024-11-29 08:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Artists Giving Back - Speaker Suzanne Horwich
2024-11-10 13:00 - 16:00 (America/North_Dakota/Center)
Learn more from Suzanne Horwich and how Artists Giving Back partners with organizations worldwide that are meeting the primary needs of refugees such as food, shelter and medicine. Artists Giving Back has observed in refugee crisis situations that the secondary needs are often overlooked. Meeting the emotional needs, creative needs and healing the heart are important and that is their mission! They work to return dignity and build community to refugee populations worldwide through our art programming and art shows, thus giving these populations something to work towards, instilling hope and a sense of pride for all their hard work.

Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest: Due Date for All Essays 2025
2025-02-20 00:00 - 23:59 (America/North_Dakota/Center)
This contest is open to high school students in Nebraska and parts of Iowa. Top essayists can earn cash prizes. Students are asked to write about an individual or group that demonstrates moral courage:

The Ritchie Boys - Speaker Aaron Parson
2025-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Sunday, March 2 at 2 p.m., Aaron Parsow will speak about his grandfather and his mother Margo’s father, Warner B. Frohman. “The approximately 45 minute presentation will include relevant audio from an NJHS interview in 1989,” Aaron said, “so the audience hears Warner’s WW2 story in his own words. This is followed by a slide presentation highlighting important clips of photos and documents our grandfather kept from his immigration and military experience. There will also be time for audience Q&A.”
The event will be held at Temple Israel and attendance is free. RSVPs are not needed.
This is the culmination of the series of programs about the Ritchie Boys, presented by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society and the Institute for Holocaust Education.
Learn more from the Jewish Press Article HERE

1st Reading of Tribute to the Rescuers Essays
2025-03-05 17:30 - 20:30 UTC

Week of Understanding
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-03-28 17:00 UTC
Week of Understanding is an annual educational initiative created by the Institute for Holocaust Education and the Omaha Public Schools. The week is designed to deliver Holocaust survivor testimony to a maximum number of students in one school week. During the week of March 24-28, 2025, we will have Holocaust survivors, second generation (2G), and third generation (3G) speakers for schools across Nebraska and parts of Iowa. This program was made possible through the support of the Shirley & Leonard Goldstein Foundation, Omaha Public Schools Foundations and the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

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)

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)

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