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Bullitt County Teacher Wins Lilly & Mark Kurtz Educator Award

Kara Driscoll

Oct 1, 2025

CINCINNATI – The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center is thrilled to name Kimberly Thompson this year’s Lilly & Mark Kurtz Educator Award recipient. The Lilly & Mark Kurtz Educator Award is dedicated to teachers who are committed to Holocaust education, ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. The Holocaust & Humanity Center educated more than 15,000 students in the last school year.

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UK-JHF Team Joins HHC Kaltman Fellowship

Kelly Pratt-Booth

Oct 1, 2025

This November, 24 members of the UK-JHF team will partner with the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center to participate in the Kaltman Fellowship, an immersive professional learning opportunity for educators. The fellowship begins with a two-day in-person experience, followed by asynchronous sessions on classroom-relevant topics, and concludes with another in-person gathering in January. Participants will gain foundational knowledge and best practices for teaching the Holocaust, while connecting with survivors, scholars, and peers.

UK-JHF HEI Collaboration with Louisville Ballet Releases Study Guide

Patrick Hall and Stacey Blakeman

Oct 1, 2025

Over the course of the past year, members of the UK-JHF Holocaust Education Initiative collaborated with the Louisville Ballet to create the A Time Remembered Study Guide containing interdisciplinary lesson plans for both middle and high school educators. This online resource drew Stephen Mills' Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project, a ballet baed on the life and legacy of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren, into conversation with primary source materials. Access the free study guide here.

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University of Kentucky aims to enhance Holocaust education, offers workshops to K-12 educators

Charity Blanton

Jun 4, 2025

Paducah, Kentucky local news reports on the launch of the Holocaust Education Initiative, and it's goals to recruit and train teachers to ethically educate about the Holocaust, create curricular materials that can be used by fellow teachers, and share those materials on the UK Holocaust Education Website. Read the full story at WPSD Local.

UK, JHF lead effort to enhance K-12 Holocaust education here

Community Staff

Jun 4, 2025

The Jewish Louisville Community Staff writes about the beginning of the Holocaust Education Initiative, and the need for Holocaust education in Kentucky, and the importance of teaching the Holocaust in a state with relatively few Jewish people, most concentrated in the larger cities. Read the Full story from the Jewish Louisville Community.

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Adam Spinks to join UK Holocaust teaching program

Grayson County News

Jun 2, 2025

Grayson County High School Social Studies teacher Adam Spinks was selected to be a teacher leader in the UK- JHF Holocaust Education program. "The initiative is led by the Interdisciplinary Program in Jewish Studies in the UK College of Arts and Sciences and features a collaboration with educators from across the Commonwealth to enhance K-12 Holocaust education and provide professional learning and teaching tools necessary to meet the requirements of the 2018 Ann Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Education Act."

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Ashley Gendek selected for K-12 Holocaust Education Initiative

Karah Wilson

Jun 2, 2025

Owensboro English and language arts teacher, Ashely Gendek, was selected to participate as a teacher leader in the University of Kentucky's Holocuast Education initiative. She says, "I'm excited for (my students) to learn something they may not have known before when it comes to this subject, and make present day connections and feel like it's a living history and not just something that happened in the past."Read the full story in the Owensboro Messenger and Inquirer.

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University of Kentucky Initiative Aims to Bolster K-12 Holocaust Education

Insight Staff

Apr 29, 2025

Through funding from the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE), the Jewish Studies program at the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Arts and Sciences recently announced a new initiative to improve Holocaust education in schools throughout the state.

Comprehensive Holocaust education: Two UK professors lead statewide initiative

Khyati Patel

Apr 29, 2025

Dr. Karen Petrone and Dr. Janice Fernheimer at the University of Kentucky are leading a new initiative to help create a comprehensive Holocaust education curriculum across the state. The project aims to empower middle and high school teachers with knowledge, content creation resources and information on approaching the difficult topic. Read the full story here.

Jan Fernheimer speaks to KY Antisemitism Taskforce

UK-JHF Executive Committee speaks to Kentucky Antisemitism Taskforce

Kentucky Edition

Apr 4, 2024

In March, the Kentucky Antisemitism Task Force heard from a group from the University of Kentucky that trains teachers on how to approach and teach students about antisemitism and the Holocaust. Executive Leadership team members of the UK-JHF Holocaust Education Initiative, Lauren Hill, Jill Abney, Jan Fernheimer, and Karen Petrone, shared the impact of teacher preparation for effective Holocaust education. Click here to view.

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