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, education courses to institutions of higher learning across the Heartland. 
This fund operates in partnership with the Omaha Community Foundation. 

     
         

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