Our History                                            
 
 
In 2002, Sam and Frances Fried of Omaha founded an organization called the
"Six Million Lights Endowment Fund."
The purpose of this fund was to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust by displaying memorial plaques and lights at all the Synagogues in the Omaha area.
 
The project was embraced by the community and prompted an outpouring of interest in the establishment of an educational component within the endowment to ensure that the lessons learned from the Holocaust would be shared with generations to come.

Along with a change in the mission came a name change to
The National Holocaust Endowment Fund."

This endowment fund was developed for the purpose of funding
college-level Holocaust education courses and with the citizens of Nebraska the construction of the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial in Lincoln, Nebraska.
 
In 2007, The National Holocaust Endowment Fund evolved into the
Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund
to more accurately reflect its mission to provide Holocaust and genocide education courses to institutions of higher learning across the Heartland. 
This fund operates in partnership with the Omaha Community Foundation. 

     
  

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