Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee

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Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee AHEC formed 25 years ago to provide Holocaust education to Jr. High and High School students in Arkansas. The cost of attendance is $10 which includes lunch.

Grace Donoho started the Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee 25 years ago when she found out her children were not taught about the Holocaust in Arkansas schools. AHEC host an annual conference on the Holocaust to educate High School and junior high students and educators about the holocaust. We bring in experts on the subject of the Holocaust and Survivors to talk to our youth and our teachers. Teachers get professional development credit for attending the conference. Morning refreshments are provided by Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville. We also offer a training called Echos and Reflections to teachers at no cost. This training also gives teachers professional development credit and materials to teach about the holocaust in their classrooms. There is a Shabbat dinner at Temple Shalom to remember the holocaust and on Saturday morning there is a family forum at Congregation Etz Chaim for Local Jewish families and children to be able to learn from the experts. Our committee members are as follows:

• Dr. Barry Brown, Emeritus University Professor, Department of HHPR, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• Dr. Grace Donoho, Retired Director of Education, Jones Center, Springdale, Arkansas

• Coty Nichols, Fayetteville School District, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Dr. Jennifer M. Hoyer, Assistant Professor of German, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• Susan Johnson, Retired Elementary School Teacher, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Ryan Malashock, Oakdale Middle School, Rogers, Arkansas

• Jason Dowd, Hebrew College student and member of Congregation Etz Chaim Bentonville, Arkansas

• Ricky Manes, Fulbright Jr. High School, Bentonville, Arkansas

• Dr. Kevin Simpson, Professor of Psychology, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas

• Tad Sours, Social Studies Teacher, Haas Hall Academy, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Dr. Irene Spalter, Member Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Thelma Tarver, Retired High School English Teacher, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Carol Turley, Springdale High School, Springdale, Arkansas

• Riley Whitsett, Teacher, Chaffin Jr. High School, Fort Smith, Arkansas

• Dr. Sam Yalowitz, Arkansas Emeritus, Teacher Education, Special Education, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

*Dorothy Reif of blessed memory

02/27/2025
01/31/2023

Arkansas educators: Hendrix Professor of English Dr. Dorian Stuber is among the instructors leading this Saturday’s FREE workshop from the Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee, “Teaching the Holocaust: Innovative Methods for Arkansas Classrooms.” The workshop, held at Hendrix from 9 a.m. to noon, includes breakfast and a $50 stipend (payable after the workshop); a copy of “Why? Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes; classroom-ready lessons and age-appropriate resources, including lesson planning; and three professional development credits. Pre-registration is required; sign up now at https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=492507.

12/03/2019
11/28/2019

Heroes of the Holocaust | Jonas and Felicija Radlinskas

Dora and Shifra Reznik were Jewish sisters who led happy lives (that’s Shifra on the left and Dora wearing glasses) until the N***s invaded their homeland of Lithuania. Except for the sisters, their entire extended family was murdered. Dora and Shifra escaped, and wandered for months.

At last they arrived at the home of Jonas and Felicija Radlinskas, a Tatar couple who were barely able to feed their own three daughters with their livelihood of subsistence farming. But seeing these starving sisters clothed only in the same shabby rags they had worn for nearly a year, Jonas and Felicija knew they could not turn the girls away.

During the summers, the sisters were hidden in haystacks in the fields, but during the brutal Lithuanian winters, they stayed safe in the Radlinskas’ cellar. To pass the winter days, Felicija would go down to the cellar and teach Dora and Shifra how to sew. And at night, the family would pull the shades tight and bring Dora and Shifra upstairs to share their supper. Being poor, rural farmers, Jonas and Felicija could not read. So when the girls were upstairs, they would read the newspaper to the family, telling them the latest developments with the war.

In August of 1944, there would be no more need to hide and no more need to search the papers for news, as the area was liberated from the N***s and the Reznik sisters were safe at last. For their kind and brave actions — which carried on for nearly two years — Jonas and Felicija Radlinskas were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial.

11/13/2019

Anne Frank’s life and words continue to have powerful meaning for young people around the world. Don’t miss this webinar from our partners at Echoes & Reflections examining her continued legacy. Join here: https://bit.ly/2X8ZFOy

11/11/2019

Omaha police say vandals cause over $50,000 in damage to Temple Israel Cemetery

11/04/2019

The men livestreamed their actions, according to the report.

10/31/2019

Principal WIlliam Lawton told the parent of a student at Spanish RIver Community High School: “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in the position to do so as a school district employee."

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