Institute for Holocaust Education

Council Meeting
2024-01-08 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-03-11 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-05-13 11:30 - 13:00 UTC

Third Thursday Lunch and Learn Series
2024-01-18 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-02-15 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-04-18 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-05-16 11:30 - 13:00 UTC

Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest: Due Date for All Essays
2024-02-22

Week of Understanding
2024-03-18 - 2024-03-22

Art and the Holocaust Exhibit
2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30

Art and the Holocaust Reception
2024-04-08 18:30 - 19:30 UTC

Yom HaShoah Lincoln Commemoration
2024-05-05 14:00 - 15:00 UTC

Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration
2024-05-08 19:00 - 20:30 UTC

Yom HaShoah "How Saba Kept Singing"
2024-05-09 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Temple Israel, 13111 Sterling Ridge Dr

Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest: Award Ceremony
2024-05-13 18:30 - 19:30 (America/North_Dakota/Center)

Holocaust Education Inservice
2024-06-03 | Samule Bak Museum: The Learning Center, 2289 S 67th Street, Omaha, NE, 68106

Third Thursday Lunch and Learn
2024-08-15 11:30 - 13:00, 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 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

Advisory Board Meeting
2024-09-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-11 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-13 08:00 - 17:00 UTC

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:
