Address: 5801 W. 115th St., Suite 106
Overland Park, KS 66211
Phone: 913-327-8190
Fax: 913-327-8193
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Website: https://mchekc.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MidwestCenterforHolocaustEducation
Director/Person-in-Charge: Jessica Rockhold, Executive Director/CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Dr. Shelly Cline, Public Historian
Dana Smith, Accounting Manager
Year Established: 1993
Type of Organization or Mission: The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide. We serve people of all faiths and cultures in eastern Kansas, western Missouri and elsewhere in the Midwest. Our programs reach teachers and students (primarily grades 7 through college) and civic and community groups.
Services: Second Generation speakers' bureau; Teacher education / Isak Federman Holocaust teaching cadre; University roundtable; Resource Center / Witness Archive; Community lectures / exhibits / commemoration; White Rose student essay contest (grades 8-12); Resource collections for schools, based on Anne Frank, Night, and local survivor testimonies
Publications: Video/DVD: The Holocaust: Through Our Own Eyes; From the Heart: Life Before and After the Holocaust - A Mosaic of Memories; Jewish Responses; The Memory Project: A Collection of Writings by Holocaust Survivors; Kristallnacht, Ghettos, In Hiding, Auschwitz, Liberation and Aftermath DVD series; Collective Voices, A Collection of Writings by Children and Grandchildren of Survivors; Semi-annual newsletter
