Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans

Description

This program will look at the collections of Holocaust survivors who settled in Nebraska including Bea Karp of Omaha, Hanna Rosenberg of Lincoln and Irving Shapiro of Gering, and Nebraska WWII vets including Clarence Williams and Maurice Udes who liberated Nazi camps. Their archival materials are preserved in a digital humanities web portal at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. https://nestoriesofhumanity.unl.edu/  In addition to making the stories available to everyone, the website is a teaching tool that interfaces with digital storytelling to accompany state educational standards in secondary classrooms and higher education research. Dotan will demonstrate how digital methods elevate these stories and how personal archives have provided unexpected historical discovery and networking within our Nebraska community.