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M I D W E S T C E N T E R F O R H O LO C A U S T E D U C AT I O N
M A K I N G C H A N G E S F O R H U M A N I T Y T H R O U G H E D U C AT I O N
SPRING/SUMMER | 2015
FROM BAGHDAD TO KANSAS CITY
MCHE and National Archives Present
Treasures of Jewish Life in Iraq
June 11 – August 15, 2015
National Archives at Kansas City
400 West Pershing Road
Tuesday – Saturday
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday Evening
Speaker Series
June 17, July 1, 15, 29 and August 12
7 :00 p.m. at the
National World War I Museum
100 West 26th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
Extended exhibit hours until 6:30 p.m.
at the National Archives
preceding each program.
There is no charge for the exhibit
or the speaker series.
For updates and program details
visit mchekc.org.
To apply as a volunteer docent
or to schedule a group tour,
contact Mickey Ebert
at 816.268.8013 or
[email protected].
It has been a long road for hundreds
of Jewish communal and religious books
and documents from Baghdad to the
National Archives at Kansas City, where
they will be exhibited this summer in
partnership with the Midwest Center for
Holocaust Education.
The story of this journey began on
May 6, 2003, just days after​ ​Coalition
forces entered Baghdad. American soldiers
discovered an assemblage of documents,
prayer books, office correspondence and
Hebrew calendars submerged in four feet
of water in the basement of the Mukhabarat,
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters.
Many soon realized the importance
of this unlikely survival of books and
manuscripts, which are part of the legacy
of the Iraqi Jewish experience.
​Given limited treatment options
in Baghdad, and with the agreement
of Iraqi representatives, the materials
were shipped frozen to the United States
where the National Archives and Records
Administration undertook the significant
effort to preserve, catalog and digitize them.
PREVIEW EVENT
TO BENEFIT
MCHE
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 10
See page 6 for details and
patron opportunities.
MCHE
Over 2,700 Jewish books and tens of
thousands of documents were recovered.
Dating from the mid-16th century to the
1970s, they became known after their
discovery as the Iraqi Jewish Archive.
Tik (Torah case) and
Glass Panel from
Baghdad, 19th-20th
centuries. In Jewish
communities
throughout the
Middle East, the
Torah scroll is
generally housed in
a rigid “tik,” or case
made of wood or
metal.
In addition to the preservation and
digitization of this material, the National
Archives developed an exhibit that was
displayed in Washington, D.C. and in
New York City. H.E. Lukman Faily,
Iraqi Ambassador to the United States,
announced, “In order to continue this
important work and to allow the exhibit
to be displayed in other cities in the
United States, the Government of Iraq has
authorized me to extend the period which
the exhibit may remain in the United States.”
MCHE is proud to partner with
the National Archives at Kansas City to
bring this unique and educational project
to Kansas City as it begins a limited
national tour.
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T H E Y W O R K F O R C H O C O L AT E !
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR’S
MESSAGE
Isak Federman Holocaust
Teaching Cadre Turns 20
Jean Zeldin
Kudos to the Isak Federman Holocaust
Teaching Cadre!
Launched in 1995, this committed group
of middle and high school educators from the
Greater Kansas City area has met monthly
for 20 years to learn about the Holocaust
and how to present it most effectively to
both students and teachers. Although their
curricula or teaching assignments may
change from time to time, they continue
to participate, as they say, “For their own
edification—and for chocolate,” which has
become a staple of their dinner meetings.
Schooled in history and methodology
as well as Jewish culture and tradition,
cadre members are MCHE’s community
ambassadors and advocates for Holocaust
education. They serve as a cohesive focus
group for determining strategic development
and delivery of our teacher education
programs, advising us on which resources to
purchase and what courses to offer.
Experiences range from Dianne
O’Bryan, an original member who at the
time she joined was a first-year teacher and
the “rookie” of the group, to Dan Blumeyer,
who joined in 2014 after completing his first
year of teaching and sponsoring a winning
White Rose essayist.
As one of MCHE’s most important and
successful initiatives, the cadre is a model
for other centers nationally, well respected
by educators and scholars from renowned
institutions such the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, Facing History and Ourselves, the
Association of Holocaust Organizations,
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and the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum. In 1999 and 2003, cadre members
traveled as a group to Washington, D.C. to
attend exclusive conferences at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Fourteen have been named Alfred Lerner
Fellows after attending the Summer Institute
offered by the Jewish Foundation for the
Righteous in New York, and four have
been accepted to the prestigious Museum
Fellowship from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
Currently comprised of 15 members,
the cadre has been facilitated by MCHE’s
Director of Education Jessica Rockhold
since 2003. Her interdisciplinary approach
and solid command of history support each
member’s unique expertise and perspective
as the group explores primary sources,
survivor testimony, poetry, literature, film,
fine arts and traditional history. As a key
component of MCHE’s teacher education
program, cadre activities are supported,
in part, by an allocation from the Jewish
Federation of Greater Kansas City.
As a career educator and former middle
school teacher, I especially appreciate the
contributions that cadre members have made
individually and collectively to furthering
Holocaust education and MCHE’s mission.
Having committed years to increasing their
own understanding of this history, providing
resources for other educators, and advocating
for Holocaust education in their schools and
the community, this dedicated group embodies
the values of lifelong learning and service.
Kathy Coenen
Administrative Assistant
(913) 327-8192
[email protected]
Jessica Rockhold
Director of Education
(913) 327- 8195
[email protected]
Ronda Hassig
Evening Resource Assistant
(913) 327-8192
[email protected]
Dana Smith
Accounting Manager
(913) 327- 8192
[email protected]
MCHE
CURRENT CADRE MEMBERS
Jeff Benes – Antioch Middle School
Christopher Bobal – Lee’s Summit
High School
Dan Blumeyer – Harmony Middle School
Jenny Buchanan – Blue Valley High School
Tracy Cobden – Raytown High School
Rebecca Dalton – Blue Valley North
High School
Ronda Hassig – Harmony Middle School
Rhonda Ireland – Lee’s Summit North
High School
Jennifer Juday – Westridge Middle School
Kimberly Klein – Yeokum Middle School
Laurel Maslowski – North Kansas City
High School
Dianne O’Bryan – Blue Valley High School
Laura Patton – Indian Woods Middle School
Jean Ruhl – St. Regis Catholic School
Penny Selle – Notre Dame de Sion
FORMER CADRE MEMBERS
Kathy Apprill, Tracy Baker, Mary Ballard,
Linda Balzano, Lisa Bauman, Stacy Benson,
Cathy Blake, Ron Brown, Janet Craig,
Phil Farnan, Phyllis Farrar, Sara Forsman,
Janice Fullerton, Kevin Gray, Alan Haimowitz,
Patsy Kile, Tammi Landis, Sheryl Maguire,
Arvel McElroy, Camille Neidhart,
Rebecca Parker, Kelly Pisani, Gay Ramsey,
Nikki Rice, Linda Rizzo, Alice Smith,
Nancy Todd, Barbara Waldron,
Meredith Williams, Constance Wray
See page 4 for news about MCHE’s
new public historian, Dr. Shelly Cline.
Jean Zeldin
Executive Director
Chief Executive Officer
(913) 327- 8191
[email protected]
MC H E
STAFF
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Art Director | Janelle Smith
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PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
Reflections on MCHE’s Progress,
Pain and Reinforced Purpose
Carol H. Sader
Photo Credit: James Maidhof
Photography
When I assumed the presidency of
MCHE on June 10, 2013, I noted that this
organization stands on an incredible tower
of building blocks skillfully constructed
over the years by our founders, boards,
councils of advocates, strong membership
base, past presidents and outstanding
professional staff. As my two-year tenure
draws to a close, I would like to share a few
personal reflections on recent additions
to MCHE’s tower of achievements amidst
an alarming resurgence of antisemitism at
home and abroad.
Tower of Achievements
First and foremost are the
outstanding programs of the past two
years, highlighted by MCHE’s successful
presentation of the traveling exhibition
“State of Deception: The Power of Nazi
Propaganda” from June 24 until October
25 of last year. The exhibit was produced
by the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum. MCHE partnered with the
National Archives at Kansas City as
hosts of the exhibition and with the
National World War I Museum, where
our Wednesday evening Speaker Series
presented seven noted lectures to overflow
crowds. The exhibition was viewed by
thousands of students from seventh grade
through high school, some of whom
traveled from distant locations. Trained
community volunteers, many of whom
were MCHE members, provided docentled tours at no charge to student groups
and the public, and MCHE conducted
special workshops for educators. This
exhibition truly challenged all who viewed
it to question, analyze and seek the truth.
Other programs of note included
the 2014 film series “Europe and the
Holocaust” featuring internationally
acclaimed foreign language films;
the 2015 free film series featuring
various post-war perspectives of the
MCHE
Holocaust; and inspiring
and well-attended Yom
HaShoah and Kristallnacht
commemorations for the
community.
Highlights of MCHE’s
recent educational activities
include our well-recognized
White Rose Student Essay
Contest for 8th through
12th graders, the Isak
Federman Holocaust Teaching Cadre,
our Holocaust Education Academic
Roundtable (HEART) for college and
university faculty, and MCHE’s initiation
and administration of a Consortium
Agreement among several area higher
education institutions as of April 1, 2014,
for the purpose of issuing Certificates
in Holocaust Studies (CHS) within the
framework of each institution’s graduate
program. I hope to provide further details
of these and other ongoing, outstanding
programs and activities at our annual
meeting on June 2.
TRAGICALLY, THE EVENTS OF
THE PAST TWO YEARS HAVE
CONVINCED US TO NEVER
AGAIN UNDERESTIMATE
THE DIMENSIONS OF THE
CONTINUING TASKS WE FACE ...
Horrendous Events,
Renewed Purpose
Unfortunately, when I leave the office
of president in June, great pride in these
many significant accomplishments will
be sadly tainted by our painful awareness
of too many horrendous recent events
that have shaken our sense of safety
and security at home and throughout
the world. Despite our best efforts in
Kansas City civic leaders gather in solidarity to mourn
and celebrate the lives of three people murdered
by a Nazi sympathizer on April 13, 2014, at the
Jewish Community Campus and at Village Shalom.
support of MCHE’s mission, the National
Socialist Movement (Neo-Nazis) staged
a most unwelcome rally in Kansas City
on November 9, 2013, followed by the
murderous rampage of a deranged mind
filled with hatred and antisemitism on
our own Jewish Community Campus
and at Village Shalom on April 13, 2014.
Even more recently, antisemitism has
reappeared with terrifying fury in Europe,
resulting in the kosher grocery store
massacre in Paris, the murder of a rabbi
and three children at a Jewish school in
Toulouse, the terrorist attack that killed
four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels,
and the killing of a Jewish guard during
a Bar Mitzvah service at a synagogue in
Copenhagen.
In the past, I have expressed my
concern that in our eagerness to expand
upon MCHE’s mission to prevent any
recurrence of the Holocaust, we might
naively underestimate the challenges
before us. Tragically, the events of the
past two years have convinced us to never
again underestimate the dimensions of
the continuing tasks we face, to value
even more the importance of the work we
are doing in teaching the lessons of the
Holocaust, and to act together to vigilantly
reinforce the purpose of the Midwest
Center for Holocaust Education.
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MCHE Welcomes
New Public
Historian
We are delighted to introduce MCHE’s
new public historian, Dr. Shelly
Cline. Shelly earned her Ph.D. from
the University of Kansas in Modern
European History. Her research focuses
on the gendered perpetration of the
Holocaust and has been supported by
grants from the University of Kansas and
the Universität Hamburg.
She has taught for
KU’s Humanities and
Western Civilization
Program and for
the Kansas City Art
Institute, offering
courses in Western
philosophy, gender
literacy, modern Europe,
antisemitism and the
Holocaust, and she has
received awards for
Shelly Cline, Ph.D teaching and for the
instruction of writing.
Shelly has been a long-time member of
MCHE’s Holocaust Education Academic
Round Table (HEART).
“This is an exciting opportunity for me
to utilize my abilities as a Holocaust
historian, my enthusiasm for curriculum
and resource development, my
experience with academic institutions,
and for me to further the mission of an
organization that I have been involved
with for many years,“ she said.
In this newly created position, Shelly will
design resources and present outreach
programs for both academic and
community audiences and will serve as
liaison to HEART and as administrator
for a Certificate in Holocaust Studies,
a new initiative organized by MCHE in
partnership with private and public postsecondary institutions.
You may reach Shelly at 913.327.8194 or
by emailing [email protected].
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MCHE
Two Programs Remain in MCHE’s Free Series
F I L M S H I G H L I G H T P O S T WA R P E R S P E C T I V E S
April 21 - 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Family drama and historical truth collide in this film about the painful
legacy cast by Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi executed in 1947 for war
crimes. In this astonishing documentary, Hanns Ludin’s son, filmmaker Malte Ludin, breaks
60 years of silence and repression, investigating his father’s dark deeds and interviewing his
still-denying sisters. The film is an intimate look at the descendants of a Nazi perpetrator,
most of whom refused to accept the history of their family and of Nazi Germany more
generally. (Running time: 89 minutes – German with English subtitles)
May 19 - The Buchenwald Ball
Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, this film tells the story
of 45 orphans who escaped the Holocaust and found their way to
Australia after their liberation from the Buchenwald concentration
camp. Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation, the Buchenwald Boys, as
they came to be known, held a ball filled with music, dancing, and an energy that defied their
advancing ages and celebrated life, friendship, family and love. The film documents their
struggles, their humor, and ultimately the tenacity of their human spirits in the aftermath
of unimaginable tragedy. (Running time: 52 minutes – English)
7:00 p.m. Jewish Community Campus Social Hall
RSVP one day prior for 6:30 p.m. seating. Walkups seated at 6:45 p.m.
913-327-8196 or [email protected]
These films are distributed by the National Center for Jewish Film
on the Campus of Brandeis University.
Series patrons: Regina and Bill Kort, Polsky Family Foundation, Shirley White
Series sponsors: Robynn and Michael Andracsek
Individual film sponsors: Carol and Tom Barnett, Judy and Rich Hastings,
Deborah McIntire, Marsha and Michael Weaver
ILLUMINATIONS
Samuel Bak Exhibit
Closes Soon
“ILLUMINATIONS: The Art of Samuel
Bak”—a collection of 20 paintings on loan
from Facing History and Ourselves
currently on display at the Leedy-Voulkos
Art Center—runs through April 25, 2015.
Presented in cooperation with MCHE, the
exhibition is made possible with generous
financial support from Bryan Cave LLP
and the Sosland Foundation. Anchoring
the exhibit are eight large paintings by Bak,
selected for this exhibition by Bernie and
Sue Pucker of the Pucker Gallery in Boston.
50 Year Anniversary of
German-Israel Diplomatic Relations
Monday, June 22, 2015 • 7:00 p.m. • Jewish Community Campus Social Hall
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of German-Israel diplomatic relations.
What began as a relationship based on history has evolved into one of Israel’s key
political and diplomatic relationships. Join us for a free public program featuring
German Consul General to the Midwest The Honorable Herbert Quelle and
Israel Consul General to the Midwest The Honorable Roey Gilad as they discuss
the 50 years of this important and historic friendship and what the future may bring.
Reservations are appreciated by contacting 913-327-8129 or [email protected].
Presented by the Jewish Community Relations Bureau|American Jewish Committee
and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
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Yom Hashoah 2015
The community is invited to attend this year’s Yom
HaShoah service, commemorating 70 years since the end of
World War II, the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising, and the 45th anniversary of the dedication of the
Memorial to the Six Million. The program, which includes
the lighting of six candles in memory of the six million Jewish
victims, will take place on Sunday, April 19 at 1:30 p.m. in the
Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community
Campus in Overland Park.
Memorial to the Six Million
Ellen Kort, daughter of Alice Leinwand and Holocaust
Jewish Community Campus
survivor Jacob Leinwand, is chairing this year’s program, which features period music
introduced and directed by Jim Murray, conductor of the Northland Symphony, songs by the
community children’s choir, and a solo by Rabbi Jeffrey Shron of Kehilath Israel Synagogue.
The event is coordinated by the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community
Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee and the Midwest Center for Holocaust
Education with financial support from local Jewish congregations and agencies.
Forbidden Music from the Holocaust:
Presenting the Music of Composers Silenced by the Nazis
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 • 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Congregation Beth Torah • 6100 West 127th Street, Overland Park, Kansas
Led by Kansas City Symphony Concertmaster Noah Geller, the Shir Ami ensemble
will perform in Kansas City for the first time! Comprised of both instrumental and
vocal musicians, Shir Ami is devoted to recovering and rejuvenating the rich
musical heritage created by the Jewish people during the tumultuous 20th century.
Tickets: $20; $10 for students • Reception immediately following the performance.
Presented in conjunction with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, with gratitude to local
foundations and sponsors. For tickets, please visit www.shiramikc.com
Remembering the Armenians
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killings hundreds of
thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. One hundred
years later, this history remains controversial, but it is important to remember it as a
turning point in the history of genocide prevention, international law, and human rights.
Author and professor Ronald Grigor Suny will discuss these events and his new book
They Can Live in the Desert, but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide.
Monday, April 27, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
National World War I Museum at the Liberty Memorial
100 West 26th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
RSVP to 816-888-8100 or http://ow.ly/kjuab
Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and legal scholar who escaped from Europe when the
Germans invaded Poland, coined the term “genocide” in 1944, inspired, in part, by the
history of the Armenians. In 1948, the newly formed United Nations used this new word
in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a treaty
that was intended to prevent future genocides.
MCHE
YOM HASHOAH
COMMUNITY EVENTS
APRIL 20
Yom HaShoah Services
Reading of Names, 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Kinerk Commons
Prayer Service, 2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Finucane Jesuit Center
Led by Hazzan Tahl Ben Yehuda,
Congregation Beth Shalom,
with musical selections by
Rockhurst University and Hyman
Brand Hebrew Academy choirs.
Rockhurst University
1100 Rockhurst Road
Kansas City, Missouri
Contact: Bill Kriege at 816-501-4885
or [email protected]
APRIL 20, 1:00 PM
State of Kansas Commemoration
“Liberation 1945”
Sponsored by the Kansas State
Holocaust Commission.
Keynote Speaker: Matthew Thompson,
Museum Registrar, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Presidential Library and Museum.
Proclamation presented by
Governor Sam Brownback.
Kansas State Historical Museum
6425 Southwest 6th Avenue
Topeka, Kansas
Contact: 785-272-6040
APRIL 21, 6:30 PM
Day of Remembrance
Remembering the Holocaust through
Music and Art
Metropolitan Community CollegeMaple Woods
Student Center Arbor Room
2601 NE Barry Road
Kansas City, Missouri
Contact: Jim Murray
Program Coordinator
[email protected]
All programs listed on this page are
free and open to the public.
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Jews in Iraq
These books, documents and artifacts
provide evidence of the once vibrant Jewish
life in Iraq, the modern designation for the
country carved out of ancient Babylonia,
Assyria and the southern part of Turkey
after World War I. Iraq is not only the home
of the oldest Jewish Diaspora, but the one
with the longest continuous history. Iraqi Jewish life unraveled in the mid20th century, with the rise of Nazism and
proliferation of anti-Jewish propaganda.
In June 1941, 180 Jews were killed and
hundreds injured in an anti-Jewish attack
in Baghdad. Seven years later Iraq entered
the war against the new State of Israel. In
1950 and 1951, as many Iraqi Jews were
stripped of their citizenship and assets,
the community fled the country en masse.
The remarkable survival of this written
record of Iraqi Jewish life provides
an unexpected opportunity to better
understand this 2,500-year-old Jewish
community, which for centuries had
flourished in what had generally been a
tolerant, multicultural society.
The National Archives and Records
Administration has undertaken the Iraqi
Jewish Archive project and exhibit with
generous funding and support from the
United States Department of State and,
during the pilot phase, from the National
Endowment for the Humanities through
the Center for Jewish History. Special
gratitude is owed to the Republic of
Iraq and the Embassy of the Republic
of Iraq for their continued support and
advice. Assistance and guidance have also
been generously provided by the World
Organization of Jews from Iraq, American
Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and
the Library of Congress. Discover Ancient Treasures of
Jewish Life in Iraq
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
at the National Archives at Kansas City
5:30 p.m. - Priority entry for patrons at the Restorer Level and above
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
All guests are invited for exhibit viewing and
a cocktail reception featuring tastes of the Middle East.
Introduction to the Exhibit at 6:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Doris Hamburg, National Archives Director of Preservation Programs
Business attire
Patron Opportunities and Benefits
All patron donations received by May 1 will be listed in the general invitation.
All patrons confirmed by June 1 will be recognized on signage at the preview event.
Exhibitor - $10,000
• 10 patron reservations with priority entry
• 5 valet parking passes
• Recognition from the podium at
the preview
• Recognition onsite throughout the run
of the exhibit and on MCHE’s website
Archivist - $1,800
• 4 patron reservations with priority entry
• 2 valet parking passes
• Recognition from the podium at
the preview
• Recognition on signage at the
preview event
Curator - $5,000
• 8 patron reservations with priority entry
• 4 valet parking passes
• Recognition from the podium at
the preview
• Recognition onsite throughout the run
of the exhibit and on MCHE’s website
Restorer - $1,000
• 2 patron reservations with priority entry
• 1 valet parking pass
• Recognition on signage at the
preview event
Historian - $2,500
• 6 patron reservations with priority entry
• 3 valet parking passes
• Recognition from the podium at
the preview
• Recognition onsite throughout the run
of the exhibit
Explorer - $500
• 2 patron reservations
• 1 valet parking pass
• Recognition on signage at the
preview event
Individual preview reservations at
$125 each will be processed beginning
May 4 on a space-available basis.
Please make reservations by using the insert and attached envelope at right.
You may also visit mchekc.org or call (913) 327-8192 to charge by phone.
If you are unable to attend but wish to make a donation in support of
MCHE’s important work, please indicate this on the envelope.
Proceeds support MCHE’s school and community programs.
Amounts in excess of $50 per attendee are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Community Sponsors
(as of print deadline):
Oppenstein Brothers Foundation
Sosland Foundation
Harry Portman Charitable Trust
United Missouri Bank, Trustee
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Remembrance and Hope Resource
Chests for the Modern Classroom
History of the
Holocaust
A Course for Educators
Grades 7-12
June 23-25, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Campus
This course centers on a chronological
survey of Holocaust history with
emphasis on the evolution of Nazi policy.
For more information, including course
fee and registration, visit http://mchekc.
org/hohcourse. Early bird rates apply
through May 15.
• Content-based lectures
• Analysis of primary source documents
• Modeled classroom activities
• Analysis of survivor testimony
• Personalization of the history
• Integrated Echoes and Reflections
training
Resource Center
Scheduled for
Upgrade
Remembrance and Hope Resource
Chests, one of MCHE’s longest running
school programs, will look different after a
significant re-imagining and improvement
this spring.
Footlockers containing a wide variety
of books and films in VHS format are
being redesigned to be easily portable
and technologically updated. Building
on a foundation of survivor testimony,
the new collections will feature curated
supplemental materials and a copy of the
Echoes and Reflections Teacher Resource
Guide to assist educators in placing the
testimony in historical context.
This project responds to classroom
needs for materials that personalize the
Holocaust while meeting Common Core
standards related to source analysis, nonfiction texts, and short, close readings.
Beginning this fall, MCHE will offer
the following collections for grades 7-12:
• Night – Long a standard in Holocaust
education, Elie Weisel’s Night is now
required reading in some districts, but it
is often difficult to contextualize because
the story begins in 1944 and only spans
one year. This collection, designed to
supplement a classroom reading of the
book, will provide educators with the
resources to explore the prior 11 years.
• The Diary of Anne Frank – Designed
to supplement a classroom reading of
either the book or the play, this collection
will focus on contextualizing the family’s
flight from Germany, the issue of
“choiceless choices,” rescue, and the
plight of the family after their deportation.
• Witnesses to the Holocaust Archive –
This collection features testimonies of
Kansas City area survivors included in
documentaries produced by MCHE,
in From the Heart: Life Before and After
the Holocaust, and on our website at
mchekc.org/survivors.
These materials will
provide educators
the ability to address
major themes of the
Holocaust and the
unique geographic
nuances of the
Holocaust through the
personal experiences of local survivors.
Funding for these new collections was
provided, in part, by donations in memory
of local survivors Ilsa Cole and Bronia
Roslawowski. Materials from the previous
chests are available for purchase at the
MCHE office. Contact Jessica Rockhold
at [email protected] for quantities
and pricing.
The MCHE resource center is scheduled for an overhaul this summer. Under the direction of
resource assistant Ronda Hassig, librarian at Harmony Middle School and a member of the
Isak Federman Holocaust Teaching Cadre, materials will be reclassified and shelved according
to Library of Congress guidelines, making it easier for visitors to locate them by topic rather than
by the author’s last name, which is the current system.
Hassig observed, “Too often visitors come to the resource center looking for a book or film on a
particular aspect of the Holocaust and they don’t know where to begin. Although the MCHE staff
is available to help them with their search, the new system will be more efficient and more
productive, especially for researchers and students entering the White Rose Student Essay Contest.”
To complete this process, the resource center will be closed from June 1 through August 15. Those
wishing to check out a specific film or book may make arrangements by calling 913-327-8192.
Materials on loan may be returned during regular office hours, 8:30-5:00 Monday-Friday.
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GENERAL EISENHOWER
BEARS WITNESS
Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of Buchenwald
concentration camp, was the first Nazi
camp liberated by U.S. troops. Created
in November 1944 near the town of
Gotha, Germany, by late March 1945,
the camp held a prisoner population
of some 11,700. In early April the SS
evacuated nearly all the prisoners on
death marches to Buchenwald and SS
guards killed many of the remaining
prisoners who were too ill to walk.
Portrait 2000
O N D I S P L AY T H R O U G H M AY 6
J E W I S H CO M M U N I T Y C E N T E R G A L L E R I A
5 8 0 1 W E S T 1 1 5 T H S T R E E T, OV E R L A N D PA R K , K A N S A S
Fifteen years ago, 50 people who rebuilt their lives in Kansas City shared their
memories of life before and after the Holocaust. Most of them were children and
teenagers when the Nazis came to power. Today, although many have passed away,
their legacies continue to enrich our community and beyond. In spring 2001,
MCHE curated their stories, written by Trudi Galblum, along with photographic portraits
contributed by Gloria Baker Feinstein and David Sosland, into an exhibition at the
Jewish Community Campus and subsequently at Kansas City’s Union Station.
Admission is free and open to the community.
1945: Liberation and Beyond
On January 27, 1945, as the Soviet Army approached from the East, the only remaining
death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was evacuated and thousands of Jewish prisoners
were forced on death marches. In addition to the evacuation of Birkenau, most of the
concentration and slave labor facilities in the East sent their prisoners west, resulting in the
overwhelming numbers of Jews found in German concentration camps by Allied forces in
April and May of 1945, including Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Buchenwald.
When soldiers of the 4th Armored
Division entered the camp, they
discovered piles of bodies and others
partially incinerated on pyres. The horror
of their discovery led General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of
the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the
camp on April 12, with Generals George
S. Patton and Omar Bradley. On April 15,
Eisenhower cabled General George C.
Marshall, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
in Washington, describing his trip
to Ohrdruf:
“The things I saw beggar
description...The visual evidence
and the verbal testimony of
starvation, cruelty and bestiality
were...overpowering...I made
the visit deliberately in order
to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things
if ever, in the future, there
develops a tendency to charge
these allegations merely to
‘propaganda.’ ”
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Euphoria, Contemplation and Sorrow
These German concentration camps, never designed to hold such large numbers, were
for the first time the primary holding facility for European Jews. Though not engaged in
active murder, these camps became the scenes of mass death as prisoners succumbed to
extreme conditions of overcrowding, starvation, lack of facilities and disease. By the time
Allied forces liberated the camps, most of the remaining prisoners were critically ill and
stacks of dead bodies covered the camps.
For Jewish survivors, liberation was an initial period of euphoria—they had lived to see
liberation. However, their mood quickly shifted to one of contemplation and sorrow when,
for the first time in many years, they were able to focus attention not on the immediate needs
of staying alive, but on reflection—what they had endured and what they still had to face.
Return to Health
Among the first obstacles was a return to health. This situation was initially hindered
by well-intentioned actions of liberators who reacted to the starvation they saw around
them by distributing their rations. This miscalculation about how to appropriately feed
starving people resulted in extreme sickness and many deaths in the immediate postliberation period. With the arrival of medical units and doctors, survivors began to receive
the intermediary foods they needed to nurse them back to health gradually, along with the
clean environment and medicines to combat a variety of infectious diseases that ran rampant
through the camps.
For those survivors who had been liberated in the East by Soviet forces, there was little
support offered in rebuilding their lives. For those liberated in the camps in Germany by the
Western Allies, displaced persons camps became a temporary home as they made decisions
about their futures. From 1945 to 1952, more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons lived in
these camps that spread across Germany, Austria and Italy. It was here that they began the
work of rebuilding their lives, their families and their communities.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Perspectives on Liberation
Clara Grossman
“So we walked on down to the little
road. We walked into this farmhouse and
no one was there. It was empty. We didn’t
know where we were—what town or what
area. I think it was like seven, eight or
maybe ten of us—my cousins, some of my
cousins and maybe some friends from our
hometown.
“We were there for like five days,
maybe, you know, a little longer. And then,
one day we heard, you know, the bombing
and the war noises coming closer and
closer. Then one day five Russian officers
on horseback came in, they said, ‘We are …’
and we put out the white flag. And we said,
‘We are from a camp nearby.’ One of the
officers came, gathered us in one room and
he said, ‘Look, I would advise you girls to
leave. The troops are coming through here.’
Liberated by Soviet forces from
a death march in January 1945
Portrait by Gloria Baker Feinstein
Abe Gutovitz
“We gathered as much food as we
could, you know, carry with us and
started walking into Lublin. We walked
into Warsaw, and we finally found a train
that was going to Krakow and we had no
money. And, you know, finally they let us
go on the train. We were still shaved, no
shoes, hardly any … just rags, head filled
with lice. We were filthy dirty. Had never,
you know, no bath, only the showers that
they gave us—maybe once, you know, or
twice. Sick. And we got to Krakow and
then slowly somehow worked our way to
the Hungarian border and into Budapest,
and came back to finally to Nyírbátor.”
Learn more about Clara at
www.mchekc.org/grossmanclara.
“…I laid down on the ground and crawled on my knees and on my hands.
It was laying hundreds of people on the left side, where I was—dead bodies, you know.
And I covered me with the bodies and just leaved my nose with eyes, you know, a little bit
to see. And I was there, and hear all the noises and beating and beating.
“So, finally, I don’t remember, if you asked me, what I ate yesterday, but this, I will
remember all my life. That was a Wednesday afternoon, about two o’clock, April 11, 1945.
I saw the tanks, American, running in the streets, you know in Buchenwald. I didn’t move.
I couldn’t push away. I didn’t feel my right arm, I didn’t feel my left arm. Everything was
numb. I couldn’t move my legs at all. I was seven nights and eight days covered with these
bodies without a drop of water. I don’t say one word, or help me God, that’s not true.
And I kept talking to me, ‘Oh, my God. That’s to be my end? I prayed all the years to live
and see the end of that bastard and now I have to die?’
“And I started to use the fingers and I started to do everything in my power. I couldn’t
feel nothing in me. Everything was numb. Finally, my left arm started to wiggle one finger.
I said, ‘Oh my gosh, maybe I can do something.’ And I was working and working with one
finger and then start the other and then I start with these two fingers on my right arm,
because my left arm, I couldn’t lift up to see the tank, so somebody grab me or so help
me. Finally, I got American from God or something. It happened. I still believe in God.
Said that happened to me. It started to working my right fingers too and I took my right
arm because my left arm was much weaker and pushing and pushing and pushing. And
wiggling two fingers only, not with all of them and then started another finger—just three
and pushing and pushing then passed through a tank. And so he said, ‘Somebody’s alive
there!’ He stopped the tank and took me out.”
Liberated at Buchenwald by
American forces on April 11, 1945
Portrait by David Sosland
Learn more about Abe at mchekc.org/gutovitzabe.
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Liberation
“Yes, when I was in the hospital, they took us, and that was like a Red Cross. That was
already English soldiers liberate us. And they tried to tell us , ‘Don’t be afraid, we want to help
you.’ We thought they take us in the gas chamber. See, because they took us to the hospitals.
We were high fever, we were just …
“No matter anymore, I didn’t believe them. I didn’t believe them we are liberated.
I thought maybe just fool us. We were so scared, and we went to the hospital, we did. And
three sisters we went in the hospital, see, and we didn’t know who, we are there­—three sisters.
One of the sisters felt a little better. She—they didn’t even give her a nightgown. She was
wrapped in her blanket. She was searching all the rooms. She find me. And then she got very
sick, because catched from me—typhus.
“The liberators really tried when we were laying there, on the ground, sick with fever.
They came—the English soldiers liberate—they came with food. You don’t have idea how
much food! Beautiful things to eat, and that was the worst thing what they could do to us.
Hungry people eating rich food. And people all got sick because of the food… They tried to
have us to hospitals. They tried to help us, even, everywhere to help. Help. Didn’t matter to
me because I was too sick to think of it…to be happy I am liberated.”
Learn more about Malvina at mchekc.org/strasmalvina.
“There were rumors in the camp
that the French and the American troops
were heading for Dachau. They weren’t
looking for Dachau, but they were coming
up that particular road. But they took
a long, long time until we really heard
gunshots. And then the Americans came.
And they knew what to do. They went
through the barracks and removed all the
bodies. And I would say that fifty percent
of all the bodies in the barracks were dead
anyway. Then whenever they saw life, they
would load ‘em on a truck and cart ‘em
to an American field hospital. There were
doctors waiting, there were nurses waiting.
And I was one of ‘em.
“Although I showed very little sign
of life, somebody must have decided that
I wasn’t dead yet, because when I woke
up I was in an American field hospital.
There was a nurse from Cleveland that
took care of me. I could not eat. There was
no way. I could not tolerate any food.
So they gave me IV. My digestive system
was completely destroyed. There was no
way for me to eat. I got massive doses of
uh—I don’t know whether it was penicillin
or sulfa—maybe at that time it was still
sulfa 50 years ago. And um, slowly but
surely they—they actually got me back
into some kind of state of life—although
I could not get out to bed. I was much too
weak. I was lucky I didn’t die. And, um,
this was when somebody from the United
States came with a typewriter and I wrote
everything I remembered at that time.”
Learn more about Otto at
www.mchekc.org/schickotto.
Malvina Stras
Liberated at Bergen-Belsen by
British forces on April 15, 1945
Portrait by Gloria Baker Feinstein
Otto Schick
Liberated at Dachau by
American forces on April 29, 1945
Photo source: “The Holocaust: Through Our Own Eyes”
Visit http://mchekc.org/survivor-testimonials to access MCHE’s complete online witness archive,
which includes both audio and video testimonies, as well as resources related to each person’s story.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Gould Charitable Foundation, additional audio interviews recorded
for Portrait 2000 are being digitized and will be added to on our website over the next few months.
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MCHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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President
Carol H. Sader
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
5801 West 115th Street Suite 106
Overland Park, Kansas 66211-1800
Immediate Past President
Steve Chick*
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KANSAS CITY,
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PERMIT NO. 910
Vice Presidents
Cathy Blake
Raymond Doswell, Ed.D.
Rich Hastings
Lynn C. Hoover
Secretary
Karl Zobrist
Treasurer
Joyce E. Hess
Board of Directors
Alice Jacks Achtenberg • James M. Ash
Christopher Beal • Donna Gould Cohen
Steve Cole • Katherine DeBruce
Steve Flekier • Gail Gutovitz
Lloyd Hellman • Cheryl Brown Henderson
Barbra Porter Hill • Jason Kort
Kerry Kuluva • Susan W. Lebovitz
Rob Mandel • Sharon Epstein Pase
Brent Schondelmeyer • Ron Slepitza, Ph.D.
Rita M. Sudhalter • Donna Thalblum
Evy Tilzer
Council of Advocates
Richard Berkley • Alvin Brooks
Gail Cluen • Laura Ziegler Davis
Henry Epstein • Reggie Fink
Anne Rosel French • Deb Gill
Brian Goodman • Hannah Harris
Stephanie Herman
Bob Hill, D.D. • Laurie Horn
Mamie Currie Hughes • Tom Isenberg
Trudy Jacobson • Andrea Kempf
Mirra Klausner, Psy.D. • Kliff Kuehl
Adele Levi • Michael Liss
Alana Muller • Vicki Reisler
Elizabeth Ann Sanders, Ph.D. • John Sharp
David Sosland • Sarah Strnad
Marvin Szneler • Victor Wishna
Directors Emeriti
Maria Devinki*
Isak Federman
Jack Mandelbaum
* of blessed memory
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ANNUAL MEETING
AND ELECTIONS
HONORING
OUTGOING PRESIDENT CAROL SADER
AND
THE ISAK FEDERMAN TEACHING CADRE
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Campus Social Hall
Dessert reception following • Reservations requested by May 15
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