Press Release: September 22, 2009
National Archives at Kansas City
Exhibit Docents Needed for Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
For More Information Contact:
Jennifer Audsley-Moore
(816) 268-8000
Kansas City, (MO)...The National Archives and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education are seeking individuals who are interested in serving as docents for the upcoming exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Deadly Medicine utilizes a variety of primary sources and artifacts that trace the development of Nazi racial cleansing programs resulting in the Holocaust. The exhibition, will be hosted by the National Archives at Kansas City, and is sponsored by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education from March 16 - June 10, 2010.
Docents must be able to attend one mandatory daytime training session on either March 10 or March 11, 2010. A background check is required of all National Archives volunteer docents. All interested individuals will apply through the National Archives at Kansas City. Applications must be submitted no later than December 31, 2009. Please contact Jennifer Audsley-Moore for more information: jennifer.audsley@nara.gov or 816-268-8071.
The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 13 facilities nationwide where the public has access to Federal archival records. It is home to more than 50,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from the 1820s to the 1990s created or received by nearly 100 Federal agencies. Serving the Central Plains Region, the archives holds records from the states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The facility is located at 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108. The National Archives at Kansas City is open Tuesday–Saturday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. for exhibits viewing and Tuesday–Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. for research.
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) was founded in 1993 by Holocaust survivors Isak Federman and Jack Mandelbaum. The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide. Located at the Jewish Community Campus in Overland Park, KS, the MCHE has reached over 250,000 youths and adults through school and community outreach programs and through projects offered in cooperation with other not-for-profits.
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