• Home
  • Activities
    • Activities - NE Trailblazer Conference
    • Activities - NSAA Academic All-State
    • Activities - TBC Academic All-Conference
    • Activities - NSAA/NSCS Multi-Activity Award
    • Activities - Parent Information
      • Activities - Parent Information - Communication
      • Activities - Parent Information - Participation Forms
    • Activities - Random Drug Testing
    • Activities - School Athletic Records
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Baseball
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Boys Basketball
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Boys Golf
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Boys Track & Field
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Cross Country
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Football
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Girls Basketball
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Girls Golf
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Girls Track & Field
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Softball
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Volleyball
      • Activities - School Athletic Records - Wrestling
    • Activities - Arts
      • Activities - Arts - Fine Arts Staff
      • Activities - Arts - Band & Choir
      • Activities - Arts - Musical
      • Activities - Arts - One Act Play Production
      • Activities - Arts - Speech
    • Activities - Clubs & Organizations
    • Activities - Lifting & Conditioning
      • Activities - Lifting & Conditioning - Program Verification
      • Activities - Lifting & Conditioning - Records
      • Activities - Lifting & Conditioning - Summer Lifting Teams
      • Activities - Lifting & Conditioning - Summer Weight Room
    • Activities - Booster Clubs
      • Activities - Booster Clubs - Athletic
      • Activities - Booster Clubs - Music
  • Calendar
  • Community
    • Community - Community Links
    • Community - Wahoo's Famous Sons
  • District
    • District - District News
    • District - Mission
    • District - Employment & Applications
    • District - Administration
    • District - Board of Education
    • District - 1:1 Program
      • District - 1:1 Program - Introduction
      • District - 1:1 Program - FAQ
    • District - Construction
    • District - COVID/ESSER
    • District - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
    • District - English Lang. Learners (ELL)
    • District - Facility Usage
    • District - Faculty Handbook
    • District - High Ability Learning (HAL)
    • District - Space in the Community
    • District - Supt. Transparency Act
    • District - Teacher Forms
    • District - TeamMates
      • District - TeamMates - TeamMates Website
      • District - TeamMates - Program Overview
      • District - TeamMates - FAQs
      • District - TeamMates - DONATE NOW
      • District - TeamMates - Apply to be a Mentor!
      • District - TeamMates - Student Mentee Application
      • District - TeamMates - Mentor Resources
    • District - Title I Plan
    • District - WPS Foundation
  • Schools
    • Schools - Alternative School
    • Schools - Elementary
      • Schools - Elementary - Preschool
      • Schools - Elementary - PTO
      • Schools - Elementary - Reading Interventions
      • Schools - Elementary - Special News
      • Schools - Elementary - Staff Contact Information
      • Schools - Elementary - Supply Lists
      • Schools - Elementary - Title I Plan
      • Schools - Elementary - Warrior Dads
    • Schools - Middle School
      • Schools - Middle School - Bell & Teacher Schedules
      • Schools - Middle School - Daily Bulletin
      • Schools - Middle School - Honor Roll
      • Schools - Middle School - Staff Contact Information
      • Schools - Middle School - Student Awards
      • Schools - Middle School - Student/Parent Handbook
      • Schools - Middle School - Supply Lists
    • Schools - High School
      • Schools - High School - 2024-2025 Curriculum Guide
      • Schools - High School - Academic Hall of Fame
      • Schools - High School - Bell & Teacher Schedules
      • Schools - High School - Counselor
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - WMS/WHS Vision & Mission
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - ACT/SAT Testing
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - Career Explorations Opportunities (CEOs) Program
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - Career Information
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - College & Scholarship Info
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - Forms
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - Social/Emotional/School Safety Resources
        • Schools - High School - Counselor - Transcript Requests
      • Schools - High School - Daily Bulletin
      • Schools - High School - Extended Learning
        • Schools - High School - Extended Learning - Career Academy (SENCAP)
        • Schools - High School - Extended Learning - Career Explorations Opportunities (CEOs) Program
        • Schools - High School - Extended Learning - Dual-Credit Courses
        • Schools - High School - Extended Learning - SCC Learning Center
        • Schools - High School - Extended Learning - UNL Nebraska Now
      • Schools - High School - Honor Roll
      • Schools - High School - Semester Exam Schedule
      • Schools - High School - Senior Class
      • Schools - High School - Staff Contact Information
      • Schools - High School - Student/Parent Handbook
      • Schools - High School - Supply Lists
      • Schools - High School - WHS Profile
      • Schools - High School - Yearbook Archive
  • Media Center
    • Schools - Media Center - APA/MLA Research
    • Schools - Media Center - Digital Resources
    • Schools - Media Center - eBooks
    • Schools - Media Center - Government Resources
    • Schools - Media Center - Mission & Procedures (Selection/Intellectual Freedom/Weeding)
    • Schools - Media Center - Reference Resources
    • Schools - Media Center - Search the Library
    • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - ACT Practice Tests
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Art, Music & Technology
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Geography
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Government
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Information & Reference
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Language Arts
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Mathematics
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 PE, Health & Fitness
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Science
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - K-12 Social Studies
      • Schools - Media Center - Teacher & Student Online Resource Center - Multimedia
    • Schools - Media Center - Video Conferencing
  • Parents
    • Schools - Parents - Activity Tickets
    • Schools - Parents - Bus Stops
    • Schools - Parents - e-Funds (Online Payment)
    • Schools - Parents - English Lang. Learners (ELL)
    • Schools - Parents - Free/Reduced Lunch
    • Schools - Parents - Health & Immunizations
    • Schools - Parents - Kindergarten Readiness
      • Schools - Parents - Kindergarten Readiness - Getting Ready for Kindergarten - NDE
      • Schools - Parents - Kindergarten Readiness - NDE Kindergarten Readiness
      • Schools - Parents - Kindergarten Readiness - WPS Early Entrance Application and Consent
    • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center
      • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center - Health & Wellness
      • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center - Internet & Technology Safety
      • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center - Social/Emotional/School Safety Resources
      • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center - Substance Abuse Education
      • Schools - Parents - Parent Resource Center - Supporting Academic Success
    • Schools - Parents - SCIP
    • Schools - Parents - Standard Response Protocol
    • Schools - Parents - Student Handbooks
    • Schools - Parents - Summer Athletic Camps
    • Schools - Parents - Supply Lists
    • Schools - Parents - WEBSS
    • Schools - Parents - Youth Assistance Program
  • PowerSchool
    • Schools - PowerSchool - Student / Parent PowerSchool Login
    • Schools - PowerSchool - Administrator PowerSchool Login
    • Schools - PowerSchool - Substitute Teacher PowerSchool Login
    • Schools - PowerSchool - Teacher PowerSchool Login
  • WPS Enrollment
  • Archived Elementary News
  • Archived High School News
    • Schools - Archived High School News - Achievers
    • Schools - Archived High School News - Alumni
    • Schools - Archived High School News - Athletics
  • Contact Us
  • Staff Directory
  • Parent Teacher Conferences
  • Archives
Quick Links
Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Main Navigation
MenuMenu Toggle
Toggle extra links
    • Current conditions as of 28 Jun 03:55 am CDT

      Fair

      Location:Wahoo
      Feels like:NA°
      Humidity:98
      Wind:N 0 mph
      Fair69°
      Today
      Sunny, with a high near 92. South wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
      Tonight
      Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.
      Sunday
      A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
      Weather forecast provided by weather.gov.
  • Sign In Sign In Link

Wahoo Public Schools

Return to home

Wahoo Public Schools Logo

  • Elementary
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Activities Calendar
  • PowerSchool
  • District Employment
  • Students
    • Bookflix
    • Canvas
    • Clever Button
    • Code.org
    • Common Sense Media
    • Discovery Education
    • District Library Catalog
    • eBook Elem
    • eBooks MIDDLE/HIGH
    • EduTyping
    • Gale Cengage Learning
    • Google Education
    • Holt McDougal
    • I Need to See Mrs. Klepper
    • IXL
    • NebraskAccess ELEM/MS
    • NebraskAccess HS
    • NWEA
    • OnToCollege
    • PebbleGo
    • Power of ICU
    • Starfall
    • Think Central
    • World Book Online
  • Families
    • Activities Calendar
    • E-Funds for Schools
    • eDirect
    • Hudl
    • MTSS
    • Warriors Apparel via Rivalry
    • WHS Music Page
    • WPS Enrollment
    • WPS Foundation
    • YouTube Channel
  • District
    • Educlimber
    • Facility Reservation
    • Lunch Menu
    • TeachBoost
    • Teacher & Staff Forms
    • Time Clock

Archived High School News

  1. Home Link
  2. breadcrumbs: Archived High School News

Website Navigation   As Staff Page Only

Set as Default Template Help

 

HTML Editor:

Your session will expire in 0 minutes.

Feature & Share

Working...

Ajax Loading Image

 

Holocaust Survivors Share Their Harrowing Stories with Area Students

Video of Both Sessions Now Posted

By Tammy Real-McKeighan / News Editor (Fremont Tribune) on March 08, 2012

Wahoo High School was privileged to host two survivors of the Holocaust, along with two liberators, on Wednesday, March 7. At top is survivor Bea Karp with liberator Roy Long, and at bottom is survivor Robbie Waisman (left) along with his liberator Leon Bass.
Launch the media gallery 1 player
Wahoo High School was privileged to host two survivors of the Holocaust, along with two liberators, on Wednesday, March 7. At top is survivor Bea Karp with liberator Roy Long, and at bottom is survivor Robbie Waisman (left) along with his liberator Leon Bass.

She’s a small woman.

So when she spoke to students gathered at Wahoo High School, Bea Karp had to stand on a wooden platform to reach the podium.

But the tiny woman had a powerful story. A Holocaust survivor whose parents died in Auschwitz, Karp was a child when the Nazis took over Germany. She witnessed Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) in Germany, the suffering of a forced labor camp and the heartbreak of losing beloved family members.

Karp, who lives in Omaha, was one of two survivors, who along with two camp liberators, spoke Wednesday during Week of Understanding outreach activities sponsored by the Institute for Holocaust Education in Wahoo. Students from Wahoo and several area schools filled the school auditorium, while those from several other northeast Nebraska schools viewed presentations via satellite video.

"The future of this country is up to you. Educate yourself! You can only have a democratic country if people are educated. Guard your freedom!" --Bea Karp
Launch the media gallery 2 player
"The future of this country is up to you. Educate yourself! You can only have a democratic country if people are educated. Guard your freedom!" --Bea Karp
Speakers included former Blair resident Roy Long, who told of the overwhelming experience of helping liberate a camp in Austria; Holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman and liberator Leon Bass, who were reunited 40 years later. During their talks, presenters spoke against racism, anti-Semitism and bullying.

Born in Germany, Karp remembers when Hitler decreed that Jewish people couldn’t own property and later that Jews and Gentiles couldn’t fraternize. Her family had to give up their textile business and home. She recalls signs in shop windows saying that Jewish people were forbidden there, the terrible name-calling she faced at school and the time when Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend.

"I feel I have a sacred duty to speak about my experiences, no matter how painful it is. As survivors, we have a duty and responsibility to not only tell what happened, but to teach compassion and understanding." --Robbie Waisman
Launch the media gallery 3 player
"I feel I have a sacred duty to speak about my experiences, no matter how painful it is. As survivors, we have a duty and responsibility to not only tell what happened, but to teach compassion and understanding." --Robbie Waisman

And there was Kristallnacht.

“We were woken up because there was so much noise out on the street,” she said. “I rushed to the window and looked out. It was as if the whole city ... was on fire.”

Her father hurried to the synagogue, hoping to save religious items; he and many other Jewish men were rounded up and sent to forced labor. Windows of still-Jewish owned shops, their homes and apartments were broken and the places looted.

One day, two Gestapo men came to her family’s apartment and told her mother to pack. Karp broke a beloved doll with a porcelain head rather than have the men take it. Knowing she would never see their apartment, she clung to a table leg only to be pried loose by her mother.

In October 1940, her family was put on a passenger train without food or water. The young girl licked windows just to get a little moisture. Anyone who tried to hide money was shot. Karp, her mother and sister were taken to Gurs work camp. She still remembers how her mother cried out when gold earrings were yanked from her pierced ears.

The camp’s dark barracks had straw-filled mattresses. Conditions were filthy and inmates got lice in their hair and clothing. Once a day, inmates had to divide a single loaf of bread and fights broke out.

‘When you’re hungry, it hurts and you’ll do anything for food,” she said.

At one point, she noticed her mother was getting thinner. So Karp and a younger sister went to visit their father at a nearby camp. When a guard asked them where they were going, she kicked him in the boot, called him a name — and the sisters walked out of the camp.

She found her father who’d received a raw egg, but found blood when he opened it. As an Orthodox Jew, he followed dietary laws that forbid eating blood, so he threw the egg against the wall. She ran to lick the egg from the wall, but turned to her father first. Seeing the expression on his face, she couldn’t do it.

“What my father was trying to tell us by his actions was this: ‘I have no control as to what the Nazis do with me physically, but mentally I still have a choice to do what’s the right thing or the wrong thing.’ It was quite a lesson. I’ve never forgotten it,” she said.

Karp and her sister later were rescued and sent to a home in France. She was moved 14 times. By 1943, she and her sister were sent to a convent in Milleau, where they hid until the end of the war. In 1945, they went to England. She still remembers walking down the street and, for the first time, realizing she didn’t have to be afraid. She eventually came to the United States, married and raised four daughters with her husband in O’Neill and moved to Omaha in the 1960s.

“We have to guard our freedom and make sure that we always will live in a free and democratic country,” she said, later telling the Tribune: “I think Americans are wonderful people.”

As a member of the 71st Division of San Antonio, Long helped liberate Gunskirchenlager in Austria. He saw the dead and dying scattered all over the camp. In one small building he saw bunks filled with three to five inmates jammed in each. The place was silent. The odor incomprehensible. The malnourished inmates were so weak they couldn’t get out of their bunks.

“I was kind of in shock. It was difficult to believe what I was seeing ... It was really overwhelming for me,” said Long, now of Omaha.

Another camp liberator, Bass of Newtown, Pa., and his friend, survivor Waisman of Vancover, Canada, shared the stage Wednesday afternoon.

Born in Poland, Waisman remembers when the Nazis invaded in 1939 and how in 1942 his brother later sneaked him, then only 11, into a munitions factory, where he worked 12-hour days. His brother contracted typhoid fever. And when an SS guard noticed, he loaded the man into a truck with other ill inmates.

“I followed my brother, because I didn’t think I could live without him. When he saw that, he motioned me to stay away ... I wanted to go give him a hug, because I never did say to my brother that I loved him...,” Waisman said.

He never had another chance.

Waisman saw the truck go off into a wooded area and heard muffled machine gun fire.

The truck returned empty.

Later, Waisman and other inmates were packed into a train boxcar with no food or water. Many hallucinated. Inmates who died were unloaded at various stops. The boxcar had lots of room by the time it reached Buchenwald, which Waisman figured he’d never leave alive.

He remembers the American liberators who came April 11, 1945.

It was the first time he’d ever seen an African American. He wouldn’t forget the face.

“I didn’t know his name, but I was sure he was my angel,” Waisman said.

Bass, a young African American soldier, wouldn’t forget Buchenwald. As part of the 183rd engineer combat battalion, attached to Patton’s 3rd Army, Bass already had seen plenty of fighting. Nothing prepared him for this. He saw naked prisoners with sores on their bodies. One prisoner’s fingers were webbed together with sores.

He was taken to a room where human body parts were kept in formaldehyde. He saw a lampshade made of skin. In another room, he saw instruments of torture on a wall. He never saw children. Only lots of children’s clothes. He saw a blackened skull and rib cage in a crematorium.

Before Buchenwald, Bass had begun to wonder what he was fighting for. Prior to heading overseas, he’d known the discrimination of not being able to drink from a public water fountain in the United States or having to stand at the back of a bus for 100 miles because he wasn’t allowed to sit in the front.

After Buchenwald, Bass realized he wasn’t the only one who’d endured human suffering.

“I realized that I did have something to fight for,” said Bass, now a retired teacher and high school principal.

Waisman, who lost his whole family except for a sister in the Holocaust, and Bass were reunited four decades later.

“He’s my hero,” Waisman said.

Pre-Event Press Release (Educational Service Unit 2 - February 24, 2012):

Holocaust Survivors to Share Stories with Students
WHS Hosts March 7 Event Sponsored by the Institute for
Holocaust Education; Community Members Invited to Attend

-------------------------

“As time takes us away from the Holocaust, it is even more critical to listen to the words of the witnesses,” said Beth Seldin Dotan, IHE executive director. “Their personal stories add a face and a name to a distant and somewhat incomprehensible event.“

-------------------------

Nearly 900 students and teachers from 17 Northeast Nebraska school districts will have a once-in-a-lifetime visit with a Holocaust survivor and liberator during Week of Understanding outreach activities sponsored by the Institute for Holocaust Education at Wahoo Public Schools March 7. Additional school audiences will participate through satellite video conferencing.

“As time takes us away from the Holocaust, it is even more critical to listen to the words of the witnesses,” said Beth Seldin Dotan, IHE executive director. “Their personal stories add a face and a name to a distant and somewhat incomprehensible event.“

A Week of Understanding is a project to provide survivor testimony to middle and high school students.

Holocaust survivor Bea Karp and Liberator Roy Long will give their personal testimonials and respond to questions during a 90-minute morning session beginning at 10:00 a.m. Holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman and his liberator, Leon Bass, will interact with a second afternoon audience at 1:30 p.m. Respecting the age of Holocaust survivors and liberators, as well as the emotional exhaustion of recounting their experiences, two sets of speakers are scheduled for live audiences that average 450 at each session.

Not all survivors can speak about their experiences, said Dotan. “Some want only to remember their memories silently, but for Bea and Robbie, and others like them, there is a need to speak out.”

The same is true for those who liberated the Nazi Germany camps and saw these Second World War atrocities.

Event coordinator Diane Wolfe of Educational Service Unit 2 said, “Middle and high school students have this unique privilege because their social studies teachers, language arts teachers or library media specialists did their homework.”

Educational professionals must have attended October Echoes and Reflections: Holocaust Education for 21st Century Classrooms training facilitated by Dotan and have implemented the curriculum to be eligible to participate in outreach activities.

Created by the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Yad Vashem, Echoes and Reflections materials provide authoritative, extensive, multimedia primary source materials that help build an authentic and complete picture of the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary primary source materials include photographs, artwork, maps, diary entries, letters, government documents, poems, and written testimony. Each of 10 lessons includes video history testimony to enhance and augment the content being presented. The DVD testimony “brings” survivors and witnesses into the classroom.

More powerful, more compelling than photos, text or video is the face-to-face personal opportunity to visit with those individuals, said Wolfe.

Mr. Waisman is a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and Leon Bass was his liberator. In 1936 the former Bea Stern was a child when her family was deported to concentration camps in France. While Bea and her younger sister were rescued by a children’s refugee organization, their parents — along with scores of cousins, uncles and aunts — were killed.

“These individuals, and others like them, are the last to bear witness to the Holocaust. It has never been more important to listen to the words of this generation,” said Dotan.  

Middle and high school listeners are traveling from:
Cedar Rapids Public School
David City High School
Homer Community Schools
Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schools
North Bend Central Junior-Senior High School
Wahoo Middle and High Schools
Wakefield High School
Walthill Public Schools
West Point-Beemer Junior-Senior High School
Yutan Public Schools

Joining via satellite video are:
Allen Consolidated Schools
Battle Creek High School
Hartington Public School
Nebraska Unified School District #1 at Orchard
Stanton Community Schools
Wayne Community Schools
Wheeler Central Public Schools
Winside Public Schools

Based in Omaha, the Institute for Holocaust Education provides support to Holocaust survivors in its community and provides educational resources, workshops, survivor testimony, and integrated arts programming to students, educators and the public.

 

Inserted Image

Related Sites

  • Institute for Holocaust Education website

Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. External pages are not endorsed by Wahoo Public Schools.

Holocaust Survivors Share Their Harrowing Stories with Area Students

Charlene Schubauer

Feb 24, 2012

WOW! What an awesome opportunity. Thanks for taking the time and effort to host this event.
carrie

Feb 29, 2012

I agree with Char....what an amazing opportunity for the kids. This past spring we visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and I will tell you that it is a very moving experience. It will be nice to have someone come to Wahoo though.
katie
missourihigh school student

Mar 01, 2012

this will be a cool experience for the students.
Barb Shanahan
Teacher

Mar 07, 2012

It WAS an awesome opportunity!! The presenters did a fantastic job in sharing their experiences and presenting them in a manner in which the students could relate. Thanks to Dave Privett and the ESU2 for arranging this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Author Bio

View More Headlines
More Headlines
Nebraska Supreme Court Holds Oral Arguments in Wahoo
IHE/WPS/ESU2 brings back Holocaust survivor assemblies; Stories to be shared on stage March 25
2022-2023 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll, & Honorable Mention
2021-2022 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll, & Honorable Mention
Two Wahoo teachers participate in NE National Guard's 2021 Spring Educator Flight program
2020-2021 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll, & Honorable Mention
Public invited to share their photos to 2021 WHS yearbook staff
Holocaust Survivors share their stories March 25 at WPS
2019-2020 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll & Honorable Mention
Eight WHS students compete in 2019 Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge
2018-2019 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll & Honorable Mention
NHS hosting drive to help victims of recent flooding
Holocaust Survivors' stories to be shared March 26 on WPS P-LC stage
WHS sends two teams to 2018 Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge
2018 Veterans Day Assembly
Students honor former staff member’s wish for son
WHS students create ofrendas and pan de merto in celebration of Día de Muertos ("Day of the Dead")
NDE reVISION Grant brings 3D printer to Wahoo High School
WHS AP Spanish Students trek to Omaha to experience Hispanic Flamenco Ballet
WHS hosts first annual Career Exploration Fair
Nebraska Shakespeare to present "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on WPS Stage
WHS/BNS Animal Science students attend Dr. Temple Grandin's 'Animals Make Us Human' seminar in Kearney
2017-2018 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll & Honorable Mention
Scholar & Classical Pianist Scott Watkins to highlight life & works of Howard Hanson in May 4-5 lecture/concert
Speakers share powerful message
Education in the sky!
26 WHS students attend 2017 Econ Day at UNL
NE Shakespeare to present "Romeo and Juliet" on WPS Stage October 27
Heart finds home in Wahoo
Homecoming 2017
Solo artist Todd Green featured in Oct. 16 'Live from Wahoo' assemblies
13 WHS Spanish students expand their language/cultural knowledge with Peru adventure
2016-2017 WHS High Honor Roll, Honor Roll & Honorable Mention
Wahoo High School receives "Global Education Excellence Award"
Holocaust Survivors to share their stories March 29
18 WHS business students attend 2016 UNL Economics Day
2016 Veterans Day Assembly
WHS business students hobnob with executives & Creighton U faculty at annual symposium
Local professional photographer visits WHS Digital Media class
Homecoming 2016
WHS Foods, Nutrition & Wellness classes host UNL Extension Educator Becky Versch
WHS Spanish teachers chaperone life-changing experience for 4 students
WHS students take to the skies at Offutt AFB field trip
SENCAP highlights 2015-2016 programs & accomplishments
Caples/Swanson/Zeleny/Maldaner come out on top in 2016 Stock Market Game!
Wahoo students earn professional lifetime OSHA Certification
Local chiropractor to present to WHS Strength & Fitness students on benefits of weight training
Child Holocaust Survivors featured in next 'Live from Wahoo' assemblies
Six WHS students/staff attend President Obama's Jan. 13 speech @ UNO
Record no. of WHS students attend 2015 UNL Math Day
NE Attorney General visits WMS/WHS students
2015 Veterans Day Assembly
Accomplished rock and roll band combines music with financial literacy education
Homecoming 2015
Demand for welders on the rise
Holocaust Survivors tell their childhood stories March 25 at WHS
Wahoo receives $576K for Wanahoo trail!
Mr. Mueller named VFW 'State Citizenship Teacher of the Year'
Agriculture takes center stage at PLC
WPS to host Jan. 21 assemblies to encourage positive, healthy decisions in a digital world
32 WHS students attend annual UNL Math Day
MS/HS students cast their ballots in 2014 Nebraska Student Vote
WHS students fortunate to meet author of "unfortunate" book series
Homecoming 2014: A Night on the Nile
WHS PE students create video & write letters to support community's RTP grant application
Sgt. Herndon visits WHS personal finance classes
U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. to present 2014 UNL Hruska Institute
WHS junior's design selected for Stock Market Game t-shirt
Online science flashcards
Dark period of history taught through first-hand accounts of those who lived it
Warrior teacher hopes to be Nebraska's first 'Amazing Race' contestant
WHS/BNHS again join forces to honor those who serve
Former sex trafficking victim now helps others
WHS Digital Media class visits new Ralston Arena
2013 Nebraska Shakespeare tour slated for 'Twelfth Night' performance in Wahoo
Warrior alum shares his mission in district-wide assemblies
WHS Sophomore Creates Winning Design for 2013 NE Stock Market Game T-shirt Competition
2,200+ Nebraska Students Experience Holocaust History First-Hand, from Survivors
WHS Art II Students Study the Illusions of Optical Art
WHS Journalism Class Visits Omaha World-Herald
Overwhelming Response Proves "There is More Love Than Hate"
Community Schools Come Together to Honor Veterans in Annual Assembly
WHS Students Cast Their Ballots in 2012 Nebraska Student Vote
Performance-Learning Center Lobby Gets a Technology Boost
Seven WHS Students Attend Annual Latino/Hispanic Summit
WHS Food & Fitness Students Make Gummy Worms!
Wahoo Public Schools Develops Partnership to Install Full Time Athletic Trainer
9th Annual Student Literary Collection "The Echoes of Our Lives" Now in Print
Couple Shares Story of Living in Japanese Internment Camps
Wahoo Students Witness Heart Surgery
WHS Kicks Off NeSA Testing with Staff Flash Mob
Lincoln Journal-Star Letter, 3/18/12: Great Moment
Anatomy Students Scheduled for Live Open Heart Surgery Videoconference
WHS PE Teachers Warm the Bench for a Day
Guest from Creative Center (Omaha) Visits with Computer & Art Students
The 'Car of the Future' pays WHS a visit
WHS Sends Six to UNL's 2011 Math Day
WHS & Neumann Join Forces to Honor Veterans in Annual Assembly
School/Community Welcome Home Heros of the 623rd
WHS History Students' Civil War Study Goes Beyond Textbooks
Homecoming 2011: a Night in Vegas
Nebraska Congressman Visit WHS
12 WMS/WHS Students Attend Omaha's Hispanic/Latino Summit
WHS Sophomores Meet Bestselling Novelist Ellen Hopkins
Two WPS Students Volunteer with Hastings Special Olympics Powerlifting Team
High School Multimedia Class Completes iMovie Project
Honors American Government Class Connects Live to National Archives
Industrial Technology Students Tour Manufacturing Facilities in Lincoln
Wahoo High's Electric Vehicle Class Posts Blog Documenting Progress Throughout Year
C.S.I. Wahoo
"One Person Can Make a Difference"
WHS Team Participates in Race for the Cure High School Team Challenge
High School Zoology Students Create Aquatic & Terrestrial Ecosystems
3 to 4 Wheels and a Rubber Band
Wahoo Students Participate in "Steel Day" at Contech Construction Products
WHS Anatomy Class Gets Up Close & Personal View of the Real Thing!
Woodworking Students Restore Antique Table for MS/HS Library
2010 Olympic Bobsled Gold Medalist Visits WPS Students
Wahoo Students Help Man with Fence, Yard Work
Three WHS Students Participate in Doane's 2010 CSI Murder Mystery Competition
Autumn Gerrish Wins First Place in 2010 Legion Essay Contest
High School Anatomy Class Visits UNMC
Spring 2010 Business Department & FBLA Updates
We Love Pi!
American History Students Learn about Great Depression via Live Videoconference from Washington, D.C.
WHS Biology Students Create Edible DNA in Recent Lab
WHS Science Instructor Secures Two Different Grants for 2009-2010
WHS Business Department & FBLA Welcome Local Financial Advisors
WHS Students Attend Writing Workshop for Young Women
WHS Biology Class Completes Study of Cells & Cell Transportation Systems
Governor Heineman Joins Wahoo Public & Bishop Neumann in Honoring Veterans at Annual Assembly
WHS Anatomy Students Use CSI Techniques to Study Fingerprinting
WHS Biology Students Use Culinary Art in First Quarter Projects
WHS Physics & Chemistry Classes Receive a Technological Boost
WPS Students Attend 6th Annual Hispanic/Latino Summit
Construction Class Goes to Work
2010 Yearbook Staff Learns Latest Technologies at Annual Publisher Workshop
British Literature and Drama Classes Perform for Each Other
Wyoming Technical Institute Visits WHS Industrial Tech Classes
Wahoo Public Schools Receives Grant to Refuel Student Athletes with Milk
Woodworking Students Post Projects on Lumberjocks Web Site
A + B = 1
WHS Students Tour the Nebraska Medical Center
Business Law Class Takes Field Trip to Saunders County Court House
Eight WHS Student Finalists Compete in 2009 Poetry Out Loud Contest
WPS Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr./Black History with School-Wide Assembly
Getting the Inside Look
WHS/Neumann Join Together to Honor Sacrifices of Veterans
WHS Science Instructor attends Fall NATS Conference
WHS Students Attend Writing Festival Hosted by Former U.S. Poet Laureate
WHS students attend University of Nebraska Medical Center Career Day
WHS Teachers Travel to Washington DC and Philadelphia to Learn History
CPR Classes Bring Life-Saving Skills to Wahoo High School Classrooms
WHS & Bishop Neumann HS Join Forces to Honor Veterans at Annual Assembly
Business Law Class Winds Up in Court
WHS Business Department Updates Computer Lab Technology
Local Writer Visits WHS Creative Writing Class
Why Strength Training is a Must for Everyone
WHS Sophomore Heads to State Poetry Recitation Competition This Weekend in Lincoln
r5 Strikes a Chord with Wahoo Middle and High School Students
WHS Comparative Anatomy Students to Receive CPR/First Aid Training
District Pauses to Pay Respect to Those Who Have Sacrificed for What Many Take for Granted
WPS Students Voice Their Opinion in the Nebraska Student Vote
Local Attorney Addresses Freshman World History Classes on Liberty Day
WPS Holds Assembly in Recognition of Veterans Day
Guest Speaker Teaches Compassion for Others and the Ability to Overcome All Obstacles
Wahoo Public Schools honors one of Its own

Sign up for our Newsletter

Wahoo Public Schools2201 N. Locust StreetWahoo, NE  68066PH: 402-443-3051
Fax: 402-443-4731
FacebookTwitterInstagram
SOCS-Simplified Online Communication System  (socs02)SOCS-Simplified Online Communication System  (socs02)SOCS Logo Link© 2025 Wahoo Public SchoolsAccessibilityPrivacy Pledge
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
wahooschools.socs.net