The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Reports on the Project

"The Witnesses to the Holocaust Archive is the centerpiece of MCHE’s teaching collection. Preserving the testimony and ensuring that it is used responsibly in service of teaching the lessons of the Holocaust is the measure by which MCHE evaluates all requests to utilize the testimonies. One such request came to us from Dr. Amber Nickell and Professor Hollie Marquess in the Fort Hays State University History Department. Long-time MCHE partners, they had a vision for an innovative project utilizing the testimonies.

Through Hell to the Midwest is a mapping project that traces the stories of survivors who settled in the Kansas City area. Using oral history testimony collected by MCHE and dually housed in the Fortunoff Archive at Yale University, they have meticulously followed the path of each survivor in the archive, tracing their steps from their hometowns in Central and Eastern Europe, through their Holocaust experiences to their new lives in Kansas and Missouri."

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