The life and paintings of Thomas Naegele (Read More)
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.
