holocaust education
in Kentucky

Funded by a grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE), and led by the Interdisciplinary Program in Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, the UK-JHFE Holocaust Education Initiative creates opportunities for interdisciplinary content sharing, pedagogical training, and collaborative planning among Kentucky teachers. Designed to help Kentucky teachers meet the challenges of state-legislated Holocaust education mandates, the initiative aims to empower Kentucky teachers to meet the requirements of the 2018 Ann Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Education Act. The aims of the initiative are to:

• Recruit and train teachers across the Commonwealth to ethically educate about the Holocaust;
• Collaborate with these teachers to create model curricular materials that can be used by teachers across the state, whether they attend the training or not; and,
• Create regional teacher cohorts to support and implement Holocaust curriculum. 

To help carry out the latter goals, the UK Holocaust Initiative will share and distribute model Holocaust education materials on this website when they are available. Teachers can access these state standard-specific resources by clicking the “contact us” link on this website and registering using their school email address.