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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor udapest is the capital city of Hungary. There are actually two cities: Buda and Pest, separated by the Danube river. It’s attractive to tourists, it has beautiful architecture and a world-class classical music scene. Due to the exceedingly scenic setting and its architecture, it is often How a home movie from 1938 turned into a Holocaust documentary Page 12

called the “Paris of the East.” In 1987, Budapest was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the cultural and architectural significance of the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue. But to know Budapest in a Jewish context is more complicated. We can talk about the Great Synagogue (the largest in the world) and the Jewish Quarter, or the Israeli See Living out loud in Budapest page 3

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ARIEL O’DONNELL IHE Communications Coordinator The Institute for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce the next three months of our Third Thursday Lunch and Learn Series speakers. This series is presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education and seeks to educate, engage and empower the community through discussion, presentations and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust. All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on their respective days. Sept. 15, 2022 our scheduled

speaker is Sandy Renken, a Holocaust Educator from Nebraska. She will present The Relevance of A Holocaust Educator and How I Became One,

which will detail her journey to becoming a Holocaust Educator, her experiences teaching the Holocaust and the relevance of this work in today’s world. Renken has been a social studies teacher at Freeman Public Schools in Adams, NE, for the past 29 years. Since 2004, she has taught a semester-long course on the Holocaust. She is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow (class of 2006), a Conference for Holocaust Education Centers Museum Teacher Fellow and a Mentor Teacher for the Holocaust Museum’s Teacher Fellowship See IHE Lunch and Learn page 2

ARI KOHEN Planning a month-long study abroad program in Israel is a lot of hard work, but actually living, working, and touring abroad for that month is an absolutely unique pleasure. Thanks to a group of University of Nebraska students who were excellent travelers—some of whom were experienced and some of whom had never left the United States before—we were able to explore so many different places and so many different aspects of Israeli society. While it would be impossi-

ble to discuss all the territory we covered, the people we met, or everything we learned together, there are a handful of places that stood out—even for someone, like me, who has been to Israel a half dozen times. First, it’s crucial to note that there is something special about living in Jerusalem. Having done my fair share of traveling, I can say that there is nothing that compares to waking up each morning, opening the blinds and looking at the Old See Huskers in Israel page 2