The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE), in partnership with the University of Kansas’ Jewish Studies Program, will hold the community’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration on Jan. 27.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. MCHE Historian and Director of Education Dr. Shelly Cline will give a presentation focusing on what the Soviets discovered upon liberating the camps in January of 1945 as well as their immediate efforts to investigate the scope of the crimes they uncovered.
The event will be held at Regnier Hall at the KU Edwards Campus (12610 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213) at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 27. The program will also be available over Zoom. In-person attendees are asked to park in Lot A of 127th Street.
Registration is requested at mchekc.org/programs-and-events/holocaust-remembrance-day.
