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The life and paintings of Thomas Naegele

Name: The life and paintings of Thomas Naegele
Start: 2025-10-16T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-16T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual Program

October 16 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm CDT

Sunset or sunrise painting of a checkpoint to a POW camp, with the barracks and tower visible in the background. Two figures in army helmets stand near a covered military-green vehicle near two figures wearing cowboy hats, one of whom is pointing up at an orange truck next to them that is exiting the camp. The truck has an open bed and is full of standing figures. At the gatehouse, one figure looks out the window while another leans down to speak to the driver of a sedan entering the facility. A sign says STOP no visitors no soliciting authorized personnel only no cameras

Micah Huyser, Executive Director of the Nebraska Prairie Museum, will be the featured speaker at the Institute of Holocaust Education’s Lunch and Learn. In his presentation, Huyser will discuss the life and paintings of Thomas Naegele, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 when he was just 14 years old. A few years after settling in New York with his family, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was eventually assigned to Internment Camp Indianola in Nebraska, where he served as an interpreter. During his free time, Thomas Naegele painted what he saw.

For the Zoom link and to get more information about the presentation, please contact Scott Littky at [email protected].

This presentation is in conjunction with a Nebraska Jewish Historical Society October exhibition of Thomas Naegele’s paintings from the Nebraska Prairie Museum in the Jewish Community Center of Omaha’s Eisenberg Gallery, which is funded in part through a collaboration with UNL’s Nebraska Stories of Humanity project.