Nebraska Holocaust survivors will be honored through a new digital project

Photos, letters, documents, maps, and other artifacts are all going to be featured

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A UNL doctoral student is using her World War II expertise to showcase some of Nebraska’s own citizens who survived the war.

According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Beth Dotan previously worked in Israel at the Ghetto Fighters House Museum and is the founding director of the Institute for Holocaust Education in Omaha.  Now, she is putting her efforts toward a new project called “Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans”.

Her research project includes the stories of 5 people in Nebraska.  It shows their lives and experiences through photos, letters, documents, maps, and other artifacts.

The digital project is expected to be available in April.

In an interview, Dotan said, ““We wanted to start with an array of people who settled in Nebraska, had different experiences and backgrounds, but who were all connected to us as neighbors and as people who influenced us.”

Dotan has secured funding for her project, and hopes it will continue to grow with more stories in the future.

“We can understand that even though these events happened 80 years ago, we’re still very much connected in different ways,” said Dotan.